Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Struma ovarii (SO) is a rare ovarian tumor that occurs as part of a teratoma or is found in serous or mucinous cystadenomas and consist of more than 50% thyroid tissue. More uncommon is to diagnose thyroid cancer in struma ovarii and thyroid gland of two different origins. We present a case of follicular thyroid carcinoma arising in struma ovarii of the right ovary and papillary thyroid gland carcinoma.Case: A 70-year-old woman admitted to ...

Despite that the thyroid gland is one of the most vascular organs of the body but thyroid gland is an uncommon site for metastasis [1]. It represents less than 4% of thyroid malignancy in clinical and surgical studies [2, 3]. 58-year-old male, a prior smoker, was diagnosed with nonsmall cell lung cancer T4N3M1 St IV, histopathological findings - infiltrative adenocarcinoma, G1. About eight months he was treated with chemotherapy. At the beginning of the disease, the patient wa...

Introduction: Tumor-induced osteomalacia (TIO) or oncogenic hypophosphatemic osteomalacia (OHO) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome characterized by renal phosphate wasting leading to hypophosphatemia and secondary osteomalacia. TIO was first described in 1947 by Robert McCance and only 500 of cases have been reported in literature since then, approximately 200 of cases during this decade.Case report: In 2014, a 32-year-old female presented with waist pain...