Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism affects 1% of the world’s population, with majority of cases due to benign parathyroid adenomas. Parathyroid cancer is a rare cause.Case report: This case report describes a 53-year-old lady presenting with nonspecific bone pains, whose initial workup revealed mild hypercalcemia and MRI lumbosacral spine suggestive of multiple myeloma. Subsequent work up, including two bone marrow examinations and serum prot...

One of the most clinical characteristic of Turner’s syndrome is the final short stature.In order to cure this handicap, several teams were interested to treat these patients by the GH.We report two cases of Turner syndrome associated with GH deficiency.In the first, a 17 years old girl, having a delayed growth lower than −4 S.D. associated with delayed puberty and dysmorphic syndrome...