Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Current practice of monitoring adrenal incidentalomas with biochemical follow-up and repeat imaging studies is under review by the ESE.Following an audit presented in 2015, we proposed that this extensive follow-up was unnecessary in radiologically benign lesions, as neither functional nor malignant lesions were present in this subgroup.Methods: A retrospective review of the same cohort of 145 patients with adrenal inci...

Background : Adrenocortical cancer (ACC) is a very rare but aggressive tumour with annual incidence of 2 cases per million populations. Hypercalcaemia is a commonly encountered paraneoplastic manifestation of certain cancers such as lung, breast, kidney, gynaecological and neuroendocrine tumours but very rare in ACC. So far, there are only two cases of ACC and PTHrP-related hypercalcaemia reported in the literature.Case report: 32-year-old man presented ...

Background: An adrenal incidentaloma (AI) is an adrenal lesion found on imaging performed for an indication other than adrenal disease. The current European Society of Endocrinology guidelines recommend that all AIs are discussed in a dedicated adrenal multidisciplinary meeting.Method: We evaluated the outcomes of AI cases referred to the Adrenal Radiology Meeting (ARM) at Heartlands Hospital between January 2021 and Dec...