Endocrine Abstracts

Analogues of somatostatin are widely used in management of neuroendocrine tumors. The “classic” indications for this treatment are: acromegaly and NETs of midgut to diminish symptoms caused by hormonal overproduction and slow down the tumors’ growth. However we consider the use of this medication also in the other cases in which we confirm the presence of somatostatin receptors in tumor by somatostatin receptor scintigraphy.We would like t...

Introduction: In case of isolated adrenal metastases, complete surgical resection of the disease is a potentially curative treatment. Minimally invasive adrenalectomy is recommended in most patients with focal adrenal lesions without evidence of local invasion. However, data on surgical outcomes and survival after laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) for adrenal metastases are still lacking to clearly define the role of this procedure in the management of metastatic disease. <p...

Introduction: Pheochromocytomas are rarely diagnosed in pregnancy. The consequences of pheochromocytoma during pregnancy can be devastating for both mother and fetus. Effective treatment requires an accurate and early diagnosis, but sometimes the tumor is diagnosed relatively late, so it is absolutely necessary to respond quickly and effectively.Purpose: The aim of our study is to describe a patient with a history of medullary thyroid cancer who underwen...

Introduction: 18F- Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (18F-PSMA PET/CT) is currently used in the evaluation of prostate cancer. Due to increased expression of PSMA in the neovascular endothelial cells of malignant lesions other than prostate cancer, PSMA PET/CT has become of interest to researchers in the management of thyroid cancer. The goal of this study was to evaluate the incidence and clinical signifi...

Background: Gastrinoma is a functional neuroendocrine neoplasm (NEN) most commonly located in the duodenum (70%) and the pancreas (25%). The initial confirmation of NEN’s secretion profile does not exclude the possibility of a new hormonal activity of the tumor occurring in the course of the disease. Ectopic Cushing syndrome has been described in up to 5% of gastrinoma cases and hypercortisolemia may worsen the patient’s prognosis.Case presenta...

Background: Parathyroid carcinoma causes less than 1% of primary hyperparathyroidism and is one of the rarest human malignancies. Clinical symptoms are ambiguous, and the diagnosis is usually made postoperatively based on histopathological examination.Methods: We present clinical manifestations, pathological features, and follow-up of seven patients from our department after parathyroidectomy performed between 2008 and 2024.Results...