Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Peritoneal implantation of benign pheochromocytomas – also known as pheochromocytomatosis – is a rare event caused by tumour rupture during surgical intervention. In our tertiary referral centre, we managed over two hundred patients with adrenal pheochromocytoma in the past 27 years. Now we report on the two cases diagnosed and followed with pheochromocytomatosis.Case 1: A 33-year-old man presenting with paroxysmal hypertension ...

The authors retrospectively analyzed the efficacy of diagnostic procedures and the outcome of treatment by the analysis of data of 187 patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) examined between 1958 and 2004 at the 2nd Department of Medicine of Semmelweis University. Aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) was detected in 135 patients, whereas idiopathic hyperaldosteronism (IHA) was found in 46 patients. Other subtypes of PA included 5 patients with unilateral primary adrenocortica...

Introduction: Adrenocortical cancer is a rare malignant tumour with a poor prognosis. The incidence is 0.7–2.0/million/year.Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the clinicopathological features and prognostic factors of a large cohort of patients with adrenocortical cancer diagnosed between 1974–2019.Patients and Methods: The study included eighty patients (22 men and 58 women) with histologically confi...