Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Ca 19-9 is a tumor-associated antigen. In this study, we aimed to compare Ca 19-9 levels in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients and healthy control group.Method: Two hundred and fifteen type 2 DM patients (82 male and 133 female) and 209 healthy control group (79 male, 130 female) age, sex and body mass index(BMI) matched were included in the study. Duration of diabetes, HbA1c and presence of complications were analyzed. Cases with high se...

Background: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a very rare but typically aggressive malignancy. About one to three quarters of ACC is functioning with excess hormonal production.Case: A 44-year-old female patient was admitted to out-patient clinic with obesity, oligomenorrhea and abdominal pain. She had central obesity, buffalo hump, and palpable flank mass. Hypertension, transient ischemic attack, and epilepsy history was present.S...

Objective: Ultrasound (US) guided percutaneous laser ablation (PLA) is a new procedure utilized to decrease nodule volume in symptomatic thyroid nodules, to provide euthyroidism in autonomous hyperfunctioning thyroid nodules, and to decrease compressive symptoms palliatively in malignant nodules. Standard treatment protocol in symptomatic benign hypoactive thyroid nodules is surgery, if needed LT4 suppression, and radioiodine treatment in certain applications. We applied PLA t...

Introduction: Continuous s.c. insulin infusion (CSII) therapy is a well documented treatment modality in type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), but its usage in type 2 DM has not become prevalent so far. It may be a treatment alternative in severely insulin resistant type 2 diabetics recieving high doses of insulin. We present a type 2 diabetic patient that we had to shift from multiple dosage insulin (MDI) injection to CSII therapy due to the widespread echimosis at the insulin injec...

Objective: Percutaneous laser ablation (PLA) is a new procedure utilized to decrease nodule volume in symptomatic thyroid nodules, to provide euthyroidism in autonomous hyperfunctioning nodules, and to decrease compressive symptoms palliatively in malignant nodules. Standard treatment in autonomous thyroid nodules is radioiodine and surgery. In this report, we aimed to present this case to demonstrate changes in nodule histopathology, which was undergone thyroidectomy two year...