Endocrine Abstracts

A 28-year-old man of Asian origin presented with fever, cough and weight loss over 4 weeks. He had symptoms of worsening headaches and vomiting. The chest X-ray was normal and due to persistent headache and vomiting a lumbar puncture was performed following a normal CT head scan. The CSF findings confirmed the diagnosis of tubercular meningitis and the patient received a complete course of anti tubercular treatment. Six months later he was readmitted with visual blurring, a di...

We report two cases with initial presentation of sudden onset ophthalmoplegia in i) a patient recently diagnosed with breast carcinoma and ii) a patient subsequently diagnosed with carcinoma lung. The first patient (68 years) was referred to the tertiary endocrine unit with a 2 weeks history of visual loss associated with 3rd cranial nerve palsy in her right eye and with a temporal hemianopia in her left eye. MRI showed an enhancing sellar and suprasellar mass. Initial biochem...