Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Prolactinoma are the most frequent pituitary adenoma, considered benign tumor and well respond to medical treatment, but sometimes, in men prolactinoma may be invasive and aggressive occurring neurological signs.Case 1: Male 53 years old, went to ophtalmology consulting for progressive vision problems associated with headaches from more than a year but denied. On examination visual field showed poor vision in left eye and temporal defect on...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a chronic disease caused by hypersecretion of GH and IGF1, it is associated with a high risk of cancer, however the excess incidence of thyroid cancer remains controversial, we report four cases.Patients and methods: The diagnosis of acromegaly has been placed on a dosage of GH and IGFI, the diagnostic of carcinoma is based on histological study of the surgical specimen.Results: The sex ♀ predomina...

Introduction: Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma are considered as a link between well differentiated carcinoma and undifferentiated ones. The histological definition is still controversial and various criteria have been proposed.Objective: The main objective of this study is to assess the management of poorly differentiated thyroid cancer in our department.Materials and methods: We reported 30 patients with poorly differentia...