Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism can be challenging especially when surgery is mandatory and imaging techniques can not find the adenoma. PEt colina is a non-invasive diagnostic test that creates images of the parathyroid glands and detects abnormal activity. It is increasingly used and especially useful when there are no pathological findings in parathyroid scintigraphy.Methods: This is a retrospective observational study with data fro...

Retrospective study of patients with metastatic/progressive pheochromocytoma (PCC) and paraganglioma (PGL) treated with (131) I MIBG in our hospital during 2015–2018 period.Methods: There are no established criteria for establishing PCC/PGL as malignant apart from de presence of metastases at diagnosis. Radionuclide therapy (131) I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) is frequently used in this patients when surgery is not possible. Indication of MIBG tre...