Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Werner syndrome (WS) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by premature aging, skin changes, gray hair, alopecia, muscle atrophy, osteoporosis, and cataracts and has a high frequency of association with rare neoplasms. In addition, some endocrinological abnormalities were manifested in this rare disease, such as hypogonadism, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia. Atrophic changes of organs and systems such as skin, brain and genital organs were reported. H...

Introduction: Thyroid lymphoma is a rare disease. Furthermore, coincidence of extrathyroidal lymphoma is very rare.Case: A 69 years-old woman patient was admitted to the hospital with dyspnea, hoarse voice and swelling of throat for a month. In her history, she had been diagnosed as gastric lymphoma 6 years ago, while she was being investigated for upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Six cures of chemotherapy has been applied. She was not on follow up. In p...

Objective: Radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment has been reported to be associated to increased cardiovascular events and death compared to the general population, but the mechanism is not fully understood. Endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, and insulin resistance play important roles in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic events. We aimed to compare papillary thyroid carcinoma patients receiving levothyroxine suppression therapy after bilateral total thyroidectomy with or w...

Introduction: Oncogenic osteomalasia is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome in which a tumor produces fibroblast growth factor 23 which leads to increased urinary phosphate excretion resulting in hypophosphatemia. It is frequently associated with mesenchymal tumors of bone and soft tissues. We report a case of oncogenic osteomalasia due to lipoma.Case report: A 38-year-old female patient with a 6-year history of left hip pain which progressively worsened over...