Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The prevalence of incidentally found adrenal tumors – adrenal incidentalomas (AI) – in imaging procedures and autopsy series is up to 4.5–8.7%. Endocrine and clinical evaluation is carried out to diagnose hormonal function or malignancy of the tumors. Nonfunctional adenomas comprise about 80% of AI. The aim of the study was to identify possible association between various clinical, hormonal and radiological features of nonfunctional AI.<p class...

Introduction: Clinically inapparent adrenal masses (incidentalomas) are detected incidentally by imaging procedures in 0.5–4.5% of the general population. Diagnostic process identifies functional and potentially malignant tumors. Adrenocortical tumors might be the first manifestation of non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (NC-CAH). P30L, V281L and P453S mutations of CYP21 gene are the most common mutations of NC-CAH. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relatio...

Introduction: Neuroendocrine cancer of the ampulla of Vater area belongs to the most rare GEP-neuroendocrine tumors (NET). In the literature, there are few reports of extremely malignant course of this cancer. Among 242 patients with NET from the Department of Endocrinology in 2009–2013, 58 pancreatic NET were discovered, among which seven patients had neuroendocrine cancer of the ampulla of Vater. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics, stagi...