Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To study patients with Bone metastases in papillary carcinoma thyroid and the role of I-131 ablation.Methods: Retrospective analysis of patients with papillary carcinoma of thyroid between 1960–2005 in our institution.Results: Of 1538 patients who had thyroid carcinoma, papillary carcinoma was seen in 1228 (79.8%), and 21 patients with papillary carcinoma (1.71%) had bone metastases. Seventy percent of them were between 4...

Phaeochromocytoma (PCC) and paragangliomas (PGL) are neuroendocrine tumours derived from the embryonic neural crest, located either within the adrenal gland or at extra-adrenal sites.Objective: To study the clinical, biochemical, imaging characteristics, and mutational profile of patients with PCC/PGL treated at our institution.Methods: We collected data of patients with PCC/PGLs managed at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India...

Objective: We report the rare case of a 45-year-old male with multiple endocrine neoplasm 1 (MEN1) with simultaneous occurrence characteristic tumours leading to a delicately balanced metabolic homeostasis.Methods: Clinical, biochemical, and radiological data of this patient diagnosed to have MEN1 were analysed and the challenges in the management of these neuroendocrine tumours are discussed.Case illustration: A 45-year-old gentle...