Endocrine Abstracts

Similarly as in autoimmune Addison’s disease (AAD), diagnosed in about 80% of primary adrenal insufficiency, idiopathic isolated secondary adrenal insufficiency (ISAI) seems to have an autoimmune origin.Within the last 35 years we have registered in our Department 325 patients with ISAI (F/M ratio 10.9) aged 17–87 years. In comparison, we have in our registry 241 patients with AAD, collected within over 40 years. The diagnosis of ISAI was based...

This study aimed at searching for malignancy in a group of 2300 patients with incidentally found adrenal tumours (1688 women and 612 men aged 11-87 years) registered at our Department of Endocrinology. The methods of investigation included clinical and imaging studies, hormonal assays and pathomorphological examinations in the patients treated by surgery. In 168 patients, aged 11 to 81 years, adrenocortical cancer was diagnosed ranging in diameter from 2.5 to 25.0 cm. In 7 pat...