Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine malignancy. ACC may rarely occur as part of familial cancer syndromes, but the majority of the cases occur sporadically. A significant proportion of sporadic ACC cases may be preceded by other malignancies and adrenal metastasis from these primary tumours may frequently occur. Herein we present three cases where sporadic ACC was identified in patients with coexistent or previous history of melanoma.Case ...

Primary hyperparathyroidism causing symptomatic hypercalcaemia is often encountered in clinical practice. However, hyperparathyroid crisis is a rare and potentially fatal presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism characterised by profoundly symptomatic hypercalcaemia, altered mental status, and cardiac and renal dysfunction. Recognising the need for rapidly controlling hypercalcaemia with aggressive medical therapy and definitive management with early parathyroidectomy are n...