Endocrine Abstracts

Scleredema diabeticorum is an infrequently seen connective tissue disorder that effects upper part of the body. The affected skin is thick, hard and painless. A 51-year-old male Type 2 diabetic patient was referred to our department for infected foot ulcer. On physical examination erythematous, hard, painless, wide-reaching skin lesion on his upper back and shoulders except from draining diabetic foot ulcer on his right foot first and second fingers. Multipl subcutanously insu...

We present two cases because 17OHD is the rare cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (1%) and our patients are first cousins (their fathers are brothers). Genetically female patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 17-α hydroxylase enzyme deficiency (17OHD) represent with sexual infantilism, hypertension and genetically male patients represent with male pseudohermaphroditisim, hypertension at pubertal age. The cousins applied for primer amenorrhea and hyperte...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is most frequent endocrine cancer on the other hand papillary microcarcinoma can be seen increasing frequency in recent years. In this study we compare clinical and histopathological characteristics of thyroid papillary microcarcinoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma retrospectively.Eighty one PTC and 38 PMC total 119 patients followed between 2005 and 2009 were enrolled study. Average follow-up time is 35 months in PTC a...