Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The familial risks of carcinoids are not clear. There has never been a report of gastrointestinal carcinoid coexisting with horseshoe kidney.Case presentation: We present the case of a 15 mm well differentiated metastatic small bowel NET with vascular and perineural invasion and three of four positive lymph nodes (Ki67: 1.9%, ENETS stage: pT4 pN1 pMX R1) in a 75-year-old British male with episodes of diarrhea and 24 h urinary 5HIAA: 48 (&#6...

Background: TSH secreting pituitary adenomas represent small proportion of functional pituitary tumours presenting as hyperthyroidism with elevated thyroid hormone levels and inappropriately normal or increased TSH concentration. They are ≥1 cm in size and quite aggressive with tendency to relapse following transphenoidal adenomectomy (TSA). Surgical resection remains gold standard in their definitive treatment while pharmacotherapy with long-acting somatostatin analogue...

Introduction: Giant prolactinomas are rare pituitary tumours. They can present with visual field defect, intracranial pressure symptoms and even temporal lobe epilepsy. Impairment of higher cognitive functions has been reported postoperatively after trans-cranial surgery and following radiotherapy. Reversible cognitive disturbances have been previously reported in patients with surgically decompressed arachnoid cysts but not after medical treatment of giant prolactinoma. We pr...