Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare tumor with an incidence of 1 per million per year. It occurs in two age groups: in children under 5 years old and in adults from 4th to 6th decade of life. It is potentially curable at an early stage, unfortunatelly, about 70% of these tumors are detected late. Functional carcinomas are present with about 60% with endocrine syndrom: Cushing syndrome (30%); Virilization and premature puberty (22%); Feminization (10%); Primary hyp...

Background: Hypopituitarism can be expressed throughout many symptoms and can stay unrecognized for a long time. Xanthogranulomas are extremely rare in sellar region, with prevalence of ~0.6% in reported pituitary tumours and are presented with visual disturbance, hyperprolactinemia, diabetes insipidus and/or hypopituitarism. Its ethiopathogenesis is still not certain, but it can be of primary or systemic cause. It’s almost always diagnosed postoperatively and has good ou...