Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Male macroprolactinomas are very rare and more invasive compared to female ones. So, they are few reports concerning their response to medical treatment. We aimed to appreciate their response to Bromocriptine: the only product available in our country.Subjects and methods: 55 men (mean age: 36.3 years) with mean height pituitary tumor =38.3 mm (12–118) and mean PRL: 2942 ng/ml (132–28 000) were analyzed. Bromocriptine was given tw...

Introduction: Apart from pulmonary and bone localizations, distant metastases from well differentiated thyroid carcinomas are very rare. Among them the adrenal ones are exceptional, and have generally a poor prognosis. The proof of the thyroid origin is not easy except if there is a histological confirmation by a CT guided biopsy of the adrenal tumor as in this observationObservation: A woman aged 56 was referred to our unit for pulmonary metastases of a...