Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenal cavernous hemangioma is a rare tumor with few cases reported in the world. Usually this adrenal masses are incidentally discovered and non functional.Case report: We describe the case of a 63 year old male patient with a history of hypertension and treated prostate. He was referred to our endocrinology department with complaints of his left lower back. At the admission the BMI was 21 kg/m2, his blood pressure was 160/90 m...

Introduction: Adrenal myelolipoma is a rare, benign and nonfunctional tumor composed of mature adipose and hematopoietic cells. It is often of incidental finding (8%) and the diagnosis is based on radiological imaging. We report two cases of giant adrenal myelolipoma and discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of this pathology.Observation: Patient D.K 40 years old, hospitalized for adrenal mass revealed by right back pain radiating to the right h...

Introduction: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET) are a heterogeneous group with various clinical presentations and lineage. They have an incidence of one per 100 000 individuals per year and represent about 1–2% of all pancreatic tumors. Non functional PNET (NF-PNET) are incidentally discovered in most cases. Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors constitue a distinct category of tumors with morphologic and biologic neuroendocrine features, they present 20–30% of all N...