Endocrine Abstracts

Aldosterone-secreting adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is rare neoplasm, which detected in 2.5% of active ACCs.Clinical case: A 58 years old female, was admitted to our clinic with complaints of high blood pressure, back pain, weakness, convulsions. Biochemical evaluation confirmed primary hyperaldosteronism (serum aldosterone 1012 pg\ml, serum renin concentration 0.5 mkME\ml, aldosterone-renin ratio 202.4, hypokalemia 1.2 mmol\l). There was no evidence of...

Adrenocortical cancer (ACC) is a tumor of the adrenal cortex, clinical manifestations, recurrence, and progression potential are determined by its biological characteristics. Morphological diagnosis of tumors of the adrenal glands in some cases presents significant difficulties. According to the WHO classification of tumors of the endocrine organs (4th revision, 2017), in addition to the classical one, myxoid, sarcomatoid and oncocytic histological variants of ACC are distingu...

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology in the prediction of thyroid cancer on fine needle aspiration (FNA).Materials and methods: This is retrospective study of 70 detected thyroid cancer. Thyroid ultrasound and FNA were performed on all patients. 66 of them with cancer suspicion were communicated to the thyroid surgeon, 4 cases of papillary carcinoma were accidentally diagnosed after hystological in...