Endocrine Abstracts

Intracranial germ cell tumors (GCTs) account for only 0.4–3.4% of all central nervous system (CNS) tumors. A 18 year old patient with an unremarkable medical history was presented to the ophtalmology outpatient clinic with a 2 month history of loss of vision at left eye and blurrred vision at right also headache and fatigue. Ophtalmological examination showed loss of visual acuity at left eye and decreased 0.05–0.1 at the right and bilateral optic atrophy. Further ph...

During the past decades, incidence of adrenal tuberculosis has been greatly decreased due to the introduction of antituberculosis drugs. It is reported that primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) results from adrenal tuberculosis accounting for only 15%–20% patients in developed countries. Adrenal tuberculosis is the major cause of chronic PAI especially in developing countries. A 53 year old man presented with a 3 month history of generalized weakness, anorexia, weight loss...

Pituitary abscess is a rare condition, with approximately 200 cases reported in the literatüre. Two-thirds of pituitary abscess which occurs without any of the aforementioned risk factors are primary type while remaining are secondary type-abscess. A 58 year old female patient presented with fatigue, headache and loss of appetite for two months. Laboratory analysis showed high ESR and CRP levels also hypocortisolism, hypothyroidism, hypogonadism. Pituitary MRI showed a ma...