Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Dysgonosomies are abnormalities of the number of gonosomes X and Y. They have fewer Phenotypic repercussions than the aneuploidies involving autosomes, and are mostly viable. The 47 XYY are generally boys with normal phenotype. The prevalence is around 1 per 1000 birth boy but undoubtedly under diagnosed given the often normal phenotype associated with this chromosomal formula, in addition to the lack of large-scale studies. There is no gonadal dysgenesis and oft...

The commonest site of metastasis from papillary carcinoma is regional lymph nodes. Distant metastases are rare, most presenting synchronously. Brain metastases in papillary carcinoma are rare, reported with a frequency of 0.1–5% and cavernous sinus metastasis is extremely rare.Case report: A 62-year-old woman presented with a history of non-secretory pituitary macroadenoma present with symptoms of hypopituitarism. MRI of the brain revealed a 4.5&#21...

Introduction: Pituitary adenoma and meningioma are the most benign tumors in the central nervous system (meningioma 35,9%, pituitary tumor: 15,5%). Pituitary adenoma associated with meningioma without a history of radiotherapy is extremely rare.Case: A 70 years old man operated for post-traumatic subdural hematoma in whom the brain MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) had also shown a macroadenoma, completed with an MRI of the sellar region which were confir...