Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Prolactinoma account for 40% of all pituitary tumors. It is the most common cause of hyperprolactinemia. Infertility, galactorrhea and hirsutism are the significant symptoms. Polycystic ovary syndrome affects the 5–10% of the women in reproductive age. The most common symptoms are irregular menses, hirsutism and infertility. However, prolactinoma and PCOS association is rare. A case of PCOS and prolactinoma is reported.Case: A 21-year-...

Introduction: Hypocalcemia varies from asymptomatic biochemical abnormality to life-treating disorder, depending on the duration, severity and rapidity of development.Case report: A 77-year-old woman was admitted for study of asymptomatic hypocalcemia discovered in routinely laboratory test. Past medical history, left thyroidectomy by goiter 53 year ago without follow-up. She denied any symptoms. Physical examination. Actinic keratosis in right cheek, sc...

Introduction: The utility of serum calcitonin has been evaluated in a series of prospective, nonrandomized studies suggest that the use of routine serum calcitonin for screening may detect C-cell hyperplasia and medullary thyroid cancer at an earlier stage and overall survival may be improved. Elisei et al. estimated that routine measurement of plasma calcitonin in thyroid nodule patients would yield an additional 2.2 life-years per positive patient.<p class="abstex...

Introduction: In the last years, has produced an increment in diagnosis of thyroid cancer. Incidental thyroid carcinoma is defined as a tumour diagnosed after surgery for benign lesions.Aim. The objective of this study was to assess the clinical presentation, tumour characteristics and follow-up.Patients and methods: We analysed clinicopathologic data of incidentally thyroid carcinoma from 351 thyroid surgeries carry out in our hos...