Endocrine Abstracts

Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a severe systemic infection caused by hantaviruses that included Hantaan, Seoul, Dobrava, Saaremaa, and Puumala. In Korea, the most common virus is Hantaan. The classical symptoms of HFRS are fever, hemorrhage, hypotension, and renal failure, but the clinical course can be very diverse. Among them, endocrinologic complications, such as hypopituitarism were developed rarely by HFRS. A 49 years-old man admitted our hospital with fe...

Introduction: Occurrence of follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is limited almost within thyroid gland, but distant metastasis is discovered uncommonly as first presentation. We experienced a rare case about recurrent bone metastasis of FTC with unknown primary site.Case report: A 58-year-old woman complained about back pain for 3 years. A 5 cm sized mass in right 8th posterior rib was discovered and performed resection. The result of pathology was bone m...