Endocrine Abstracts

Presence of clinical symptoms and signs specific for suspected illness is, in general, a condition sine qua non to start diagnostics procedures. However, some diseases may proceed with various and disparate symptoms, which often suggests completely different diagnosis. One of them is pheochromocytoma – rare, usually benign neoplasm derived from chromaffin cells of adrenal medulla. It is very important to diagnose the disease while it is curable by surgery like ma...

Introduction: Isolated corticotropic insufficiency of hypophysis with consecutive secondary adrenal insufficiency is a very rare disease. Literature notes difficulties in proper recognition and necessity of differential diagnosis, including among others chronic fatigue syndrome. In recent years, in Poland we observe more and more frequently setting this diagnosis – only on the basis of low ACTH an cortisol concentrations, despite of proper stimulation with 250 μg<sup...