Endocrine Abstracts

During pregnancy of healthy women, a great increase of serum little prolactin occurs. In has been also reported that a significant amount of serum big big prolactin (termed macroprolactinemia) may be detected in about 4% of healthy pregnant women. Because the occurrence of macroprolactinemia during pregnancy of women with prolactin-producing pituitary microadenomas has not been extensively investigated, we determined both little and big big prolactin in serum of 97 women with ...

Introduction: Adrenocortical cancer is a rare malignant tumour with a poor prognosis. The incidence is 0.7–2.0/million/year.Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the clinicopathological features and prognostic factors of a large cohort of patients with adrenocortical cancer diagnosed between 1974–2019.Patients and Methods: The study included eighty patients (22 men and 58 women) with histologically confi...