Endocrine Abstracts

Nodular thyroid disease is frequently observed in patients with acromegaly. The aim of this study is to evaluate thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer frequency in acromegalic patients. The data of 125 acromegalic (55 males and 70 females) patients followed over 10 years were evaluated retrospectively from the recorded files. Data for gender, age, duration of acromegaly, thyroid function tests, thyroid ultrasonography (US), and thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and thy...

Introduction: Acromegaloidism is characterized by features of acromegaly without excessive GH secretion.Case report: A 24-year-old male presented with acral enlargement and bilateral non-inflammatory wrist and ankle pain. He had coarse facial features, prominent clubbing, enlarged hands and feet. BMI was 21.3 kg/m2. He did not have a relevant personal and family history. He was not on any medication. Due to his acromegaloid appearance he was r...

Introduction: Adrenal cysts are rare usually benign and asymptomatic. Histologically, they are classified as epithelial, endothelial, parasitic and pseudocysts. Although extremely rare and clinically more dramatic cystic adrenal carcinoma and cystic pheochromocytoma must be considered in the differential diagnosis of adrenal cysts. In this report, we presented a patient with a large cystic pheochromocytoma.Case report: A 30-year-old female patient admitt...

Introduction: Mucormycosis is a serious fungal infection, It is frequently observed in immunocompromised patients such as diabetes mellitus. The most common clinical presentation of mucormycosis is rhino-orbita- cerebral infection.Case presentation: A seventy three-years- old man with diabetes mellitus who was operated due to orbital trauma a mounth ago. Periorbital cellulitis and diabetic ketosis developed during post-operative period and the patient wa...

Lesions causing primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) can be summarised as solitary adenoma (80–85%), multiglandular hyperplasia (15%), parathyroid carcinoma (1%). While double adenomas are identified in 2–15% of the patients which are operated for PHP, triple adenomas are very rare. The case is presented because in the recent years patients who are admitted to the hospital with intense bone complaints are very unusual and multiple adenomas are also seldom. 22 years old ...

Introduction: Ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) secretion is a less common cause of Cushing syndrome(CS) and is seen in 5 to 10% of patients with endogenous hypercortisolism. The most common types are bronchial carcinoids and small cell lung carcinoma. However, in approximately 10–20% of the cases, overt tumor cannot be found. Here, we described two patients with catastrophic hypercorticolism associated with ectopic CS and who were treated with bilateral adrenale...

Introduction: BRAF V600E substitution is one of the most common mutation in PTC in different populations, and is associated with poor prognosis of the classical variant of PTC (CVPTC) such as extrathyroidal expansion, vascular invasion, lymph node metastasis and recurrence of the disease. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of BRAF V600E mutation in subcell- types of the PTCs in Turkish population.Materials and methods: A total of 19...