Endocrine Abstracts

Context: Epidemiological data is important to correctly quantify the extent of disease and needed health care resources. There are no reports on both incidence and prevalence rates for pituitary adenomas (PAs) together in the same population.Objective: The objective of the study was to establish the prevalence and incidence of pituitary adenomas with in-depth analysis of their various subtypes in a well defined population.Design: T...

Background: We studied a cohort of hyperparathyroid patients in order to elucidate their clinical, laboratory, radiological and histological findings; the role of diagnostic imaging and concomitant thyroid pathologies.Method: 48 patients met our inclusion criteria for hypercalcaemic primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). We documented patients’ demographic data, symptomatology, associated conditions and treatment and analysed the work-up, management an...