Endocrine Abstracts

Usual metastatic localizations in MTC are liver, bone and lung. We report two cases with metastases in pancreas and breast.In a 51-year-old woman were discovered several nodules in the thyroid gland: 29×19 mm in the right lobe and 5 mm in the left. Calcitonine (CT) levels were 2300 and ECA 44 ng/ml. Fine-needle aspiration of the main nodule confirmed MTC. Total thyroidectomy and right jugulo carotidal lymph node dissection were performed in 1998 wit...

The characteristics of adrenal involvement in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) have been defined from studies involving a limited number of patients. We have assessed retrospectively the prevalence, characteristics and evolution of adrenal involvement from the French group for the study of endocrine tumours (GTE) registry, involving 688 patients with MEN1. In our series, adrenal tumours identified at abdominal imaging occurred in 130 patients (18.9%). The mean age of...