Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The clinical diagnosis of pheochromocytoma requires improved clinical reasoning due to the scarcity of symptoms and complementary tests that are not always confirmatory.Clinical case: A 58-year-old female patient sought an endocrinology service at the University Hospital for investigation of Adrenal tumor on the right, measuring 3.8×4.5×3.8 cm, discovered during routine ultrasound. He reported vague symptoms of abdominal discomfort ...

GH secreting adenomas could be associated with clinical acromegaly with or without hyperprolactinemia, being rare cases of non functioning adenomas. They correspond a 25–30%of pituitary adenomas, generaly presented as macroadenoma.Frequently, they have another hormones production, often prolactin and TSH. Almost 75% of cases are macroadenomas. A 48-year-old Caucasian patient admitted complaining of facial craniofacial alterations, polyarthralgia, holocranial headache and ...