Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is a very rare neoplasm, which has histopathological features different from those of atypical parathyroid adenomas (APA). However, the clinical course of both tumour types is similar, with the exception of the unusual metastases of the carcinoma. With this study we aim to identify those clinical-analytical and anatomopathological variables that allow us to differentiate PCs from APAs.Material and Methods: Retrosp...

The lipodystrophic syndromes are a heterogeneous group of congenital or acquired disorders characterized by either complete or partial lack of adipose tissue with the apparent accumulation of fat in other regions of the body. Their prevalence is low and ranges from 1:200000/500000 and they usually suffer metabolic abnormalities associated with the abnormal distributition of fat such as severe insulin resistance with acantosis and diabetes, progressive liver disease along with ...