Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Excessive consumption of liquorice can cause endocrine symptoms of apparent mineralocorticoid excess (AME). This is usually caused by excessive consumption of liquorice-containing sweets and native liquorice root but the different chemical compounds in liquorice may also be used in many other products where it is considered an additive and therefore not explicitly declared.Case: We here report a 21-year-old patient who exhibited severe symp...

Head and neck paragangliomas (HNPGLs) are a type of neuroendocrine tumour. They arise from the sympathetic ganglia and can be either sporadic or due to hereditary syndromes (up to 40%). Most HNPGLs do not produce significant amounts of catecholamines1. Often, HNPGLs are detected in late stages due to compression or infiltration of cranial structures1. We report a case of a paraganglioma of the basis cranii due to somatic variants of SDHB (succinate dehydr...