Endocrine Abstracts

Case of 33 years old male patient with an unremarkable past medical history, who after a car accident, a cystic nodular right neck mass was incidentally found by MRI of cervical spine. Physical examination revealed a mildly tender right neck mass. He was clinically and biochemically euthyroid. Denied history of neck irradiation. No family history of thyroid disease or thyroid cancer. Excisional biopsy of right neck mass showed metastasic well differentiated papillary carcinoma...

Introduction: Isolated ACTH deficiency (IAD) is a rare entity characterized by secondary adrenal insufficiency with low levels of serum cortisol, decreased production of ACTH, adequate secretion of other pituitary hormones and normal pituitary structure on radioimaging. Due to the rarity of its occurrence the prevalence of IAD as a cause of secondary adrenal insufficiency has not been determined. To our knowledge 200 cases are described in the literature. Impairment of GH secr...

Hyperfunctional nodules of the thyroid are rarely associated with thyroid cancer, for these reason are rarely biopsied. Although multiple theories have being proposed, the relationship is still uncertain. After performing a MEDLINE literature search, we found in multiple retrospectives analysis, that patients with hyperthyroidism with hyperfunctional nodules have an estimated of 0.3–16.3% prevalence of malignancy. In our study forty-eight hyperthyroid cases were prospecti...