Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Brown tumor or osteitis fibrocystica is a benign bone lesion reflecting an abnormality of bone metabolism in the context of hyperparathyroidism. It can affect the entire skeleton, including the pelvis, ribs, clavicles and extremities. Involvement of the maxillary bone is very uncommon. We present a case of multiple brown tumors with an unusual maxillo-mandibular localization, revealed by a disorder of phosphocalcic metabolism and tertiary hyperparathyroidism. Thi...

Introduction: Digestive neuroendocrine tumors (DNETs) represent a heterogeneous group of tumors. This heterogeneity is manifested by the variable localization of these tumors but also by a great clinical and biological diversity. Thus, they occupy an increasingly important place in digestive oncology.NETs are very rare and represent about 1% of all digestive tumors, due to their slow evolution. The majority of them develop in the digestive tract (67.5%) ...

Introduction: Today, atypical antipsychotics offer the advantage of less frequent extrapyramidal effects compared to conventional neuroleptics, but they are associated with weight gain and diabetes mellitus.Observation: A 31-year-old patient with positive diabetic heredity, followed for schizophrenia on Levomepromazine and Olanzapine. Having revealed his diabetes mellitus by a diabetic cardinal syndrome. Blood glucose= 3g/l. Urine dipstick shows ketonuri...