Endocrine Abstracts

A 57-year-old female patient was admitted for evaluation of multiple focal liver lesions diagnosed with abdominal ultrasound and CT. Her medical history included severe rheumatoid arthritis and pernicious anaemia treated with vitamin B12. Gastroscopic examination revealed numerous small polypoid lesions within the stomach, and histology of tissue samples obtained by biopsy showed carcinoid associated with atrophic gastritis. Although the patient had no symptoms of carcinoid sy...

Objective: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is a rare heritable tumor syndrome caused by germline mutations of MEN1 gene affecting mainly the parathyroid, pituitary and pancreas. Phenotype varies widely, even in first-degree relatives. Recently it has been shown that functionally active gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs), initially frequently diagnosed as sporadic cases, lead to MEN1 diagnosis. Non-functioning tumors are increasingly rec...

Introduction: Clinicopathological characterisation ofneuroendocrine neoplasms could provide improved prognostic information even at the time of the diagnosis.Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the clinicopathological features of a large cohort of patients with neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs).Patients and methods: The study included 210 patients (95 men and 115 women) with histologically confirmed and verified neu...