Endocrine Abstracts

Differential diagnoses of sellar, parasellar and suprasellar pathologies other than tumors such as common adenoma, rathke cleft cysts and meningioma and craniopharyngiomas were presented. This retrospective study was performed including 25 patients who were operated or treated medically in between 2008 and 2019. The patients were analyzed with preoperative/postoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), endocrinological and neuro-ophthalmologic examination results. Pre and pos...

The association of acromegaly and end stage renal disease was not reported before. Here, we present a case of 57 years old male patient who had been followed with the diagnosis of 13 years of acromegaly and 18 years of type 2 diabetes at another center until 2005 when he was admitted to our outpatient clinic. He had been operated for a pituitary macroadenoma 13 years ago and followed without treatment for acromegaly. He was treated with long acting insulin and he was metabolic...

Acromegaly is usually caused by a GH-secreting pituitary adenoma. Although fertility is frequently impaired, pregnancy can be possible due to improvement in diagnosis and treatment modalities. Tumour enlargement and nontumoral lactotroph enlargement related with pregnancy can compress the optic chiasm and cause visual impairment. Optimal management of acromegaly during pregnancy is not well established. In this paper our experience about the clinical, laboratory, radiologic da...

Exposure to supraphysiologic doses of exogenous glucocorticoids is associated with gastrointestinal (GI) complications such as peptic ulcer disease, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, duodenal ulcer, and colonic diverticular perforation (DP). Patients receiving high dose glucocorticoids, for rheumatological or autoimmune disease are at increased risk for lower gastrointestinal tract abscesses and perforation. However, little is known about GI complications in endogenous hypercortiso...

Introduction: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare tumor with an aggressive prognosis of 1–2 people per million per year. They are functional tumors which mostly occur with virilization and/or Cushing syndrome. Metastatic ACC has a dismal prognosis and the most common sites of metastases are the lung, liver, lymph nodes and bones. Herein, we present metastatic ACC patient without Cushing clinic at the time of diagnosis.Case presentation: A 48-ye...

Introduction: Although the radiographic and histological features are the same as benign pheochromocytomas, malignant and metastatic pheochromocytoma is differentiated by invasion of the surrounding tissues and organ metastasis. Here, we present a young patient with a diagnosis of metastatic pheochromocytoma presenting with hypertension attacks, headache and flushing.Case presentation: A 22-year-old woman with a history of hypertension who had been suffe...

Introduction: Ten per cent of pheochromocytomas are malignant. Malign pheochromocytoma could cause metastasis, relapse and local invasion. The most common sites of metastasis for pheochromocytoma or extra-adrenal paraganglioma are lymph nodes, bones, lungs, and liver. Here, we present a case who had pheochromocytoma relapse and unusual peritoneal metastasis after 12 years of left adrenalectomy.Case presentation: A 38 year-old woman, who had left adrenale...