Endocrine Abstracts

1. A 48 year old female was admitted to inpatient psychiatry with paranoid delusions, auditory hallucinations and subsequently detained under the Mental Health Act of Scotland. She had been diagnosed with Graves’ Disease 5 years previously having presented with anxiety and weight loss but had elected to refuse anti-thyroid drugs in favour of homeopathy and acupuncture. She refused any treatment for Graves’ Disease when admitted to Psychiatry even though floridly thyr...

Introduction: Thyroid cancers are the most common endocrine cancer among children, accounting for 0.5–3% of all childhood malignancies. Thyroid carcinogenesis is well established in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndromes type 2, and may present with medullary thyroid cancer at young age. However, with the advancement of genetics, several other syndromes need to be considered which may lead to non-medullary thyroid cancers including DICER1 tumour predispos...