Endocrine Abstracts

A 68-year-old lady presented with a right-sided breast lump detected on routine mammography. Past medical history included type 2 diabetes, asthma, and hypothyroidism following radioactive iodine for toxic multinodular goitre. Staging CT showed 2 presumed metastases in the left lung, and one in the right lung. She was referred for biopsy and/or resection of these lesions. Histology of the left lower lobe lesion showed a typical carcinoid tumour with an adjacent neuroendocrine ...

Introduction: Giant prolactinomas are rare pituitary tumours. They can present with visual field defect, intracranial pressure symptoms and even temporal lobe epilepsy. Impairment of higher cognitive functions has been reported postoperatively after trans-cranial surgery and following radiotherapy. Reversible cognitive disturbances have been previously reported in patients with surgically decompressed arachnoid cysts but not after medical treatment of giant prolactinoma. We pr...