Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: Autonomic cortisol secretion (ACS) is a clinical picture without overt signs of Cushing’s Syndrome despite adrenal adenoma and ACTH-independent cortisol secretion. These patients, who currently do not have a standard treatment, are followed up, especially for known comorbidities of hypercortisolemia such as obesity, diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, osteoporosis, and hyperlipidemia. However, it remains unclear how long the patients will be followed and when the t...

Introduction: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare tumor with an aggressive prognosis of 1–2 people per million per year. They are functional tumors which mostly occur with virilization and/or Cushing syndrome. Metastatic ACC has a dismal prognosis and the most common sites of metastases are the lung, liver, lymph nodes and bones. Herein, we present metastatic ACC patient without Cushing clinic at the time of diagnosis.Case presentation: A 48-ye...

Introduction: Ten per cent of pheochromocytomas are malignant. Malign pheochromocytoma could cause metastasis, relapse and local invasion. The most common sites of metastasis for pheochromocytoma or extra-adrenal paraganglioma are lymph nodes, bones, lungs, and liver. Here, we present a case who had pheochromocytoma relapse and unusual peritoneal metastasis after 12 years of left adrenalectomy.Case presentation: A 38 year-old woman, who had left adrenale...