Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Weakness is one of the most common complaints among the patients. Clinical manifestations of a hypopituitarism depend on the extent of hormone deficiency and may be non-specific and thus the diagnosis is often missed. The progressive loss of pituitary hormone secretion is usually a slow process, which can occur over a period of months or years.Clinical case: A 62 years old women who complained of mild weakness mostly in the evenings in the ...

Introduction: Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common malignancy of the thyroid gland. Distant metastasis, usually in bones or lungs, can be found in about 10%–15% of cases. A clinical case of FTC distant bone metastasis is presented.Case: A 62-year-old male came to endocrinologist for annual follow-up (FU) of multinodular goiter, euthyreosis in 2010. Two years before prostate carcinoma (T1N0M0) was also diagnosed for the patien...

Introduction: Ectopic benign thyroid tissue outside the normal migration path of the thyroid is an extremely rare condition that, to our knowledge, has never been described in the orbit.Clinical case: 75-year-old woman with nodular thyroid was referred to Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos for fine needle aspiration biopsy. Her complaints were palpitations, difficulty swallowing, diplopia, exophthalmos with medial and –superio...

Introduction: Insulinoma is a rare pancreatic tumor, typically sporadic, solitary and benign. However, nonspecific symptoms of hypoglycemia, negative laboratory investigations and small size of these tumors can retard the diagnosis, and symptoms may be misattributed to psychiatric, cardiac, neurological disorders.Case presentation: A 35-year-old male had history of night time seizures with hallucinations, delirium and spasms, lasting from 10 minutes to 1...