Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Malignant struma ovarii is a rare disease, for which risk factors and prognostic features are not well-defined. We present a patient with concomitant Graves’ disease and metastatic follicular thyroid cancer arising from struma ovarii, and discuss the possible mechanism of this association.Clinical case: A 43 year old woman undergoing follow-up for Graves’ disease (GD) presented with an enlarging left lower abdominal mass. She ha...

Introduction: We report a patient who presented with presumed intestinal obstruction, and was subsequently diagnosed with an adrenal phaeochromocytoma associated with venous thromboembolism. We review the literature and discuss underlying mechanisms for these uncommon manifestations.Case presentation: A 56-year-old man with background untreated hypertension presented with abdominal distension, vomiting, breathlessness and haemoptysis. Heart rate (HR) was...