Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common malignancy of the thyroid gland. Distant metastasis, usually in bones or lungs, can be found in about 10%–15% of cases. A clinical case of FTC distant bone metastasis is presented.Case: A 62-year-old male came to endocrinologist for annual follow-up (FU) of multinodular goiter, euthyreosis in 2010. Two years before prostate carcinoma (T1N0M0) was also diagnosed for the patien...

Introduction: Insulinoma is a rare pancreatic tumor, typically sporadic, solitary and benign. However, nonspecific symptoms of hypoglycemia, negative laboratory investigations and small size of these tumors can retard the diagnosis, and symptoms may be misattributed to psychiatric, cardiac, neurological disorders.Case presentation: A 35-year-old male had history of night time seizures with hallucinations, delirium and spasms, lasting from 10 minutes to 1...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate treatment options and effectiveness in patients with acromegaly.Methods: The study involved retrospective data collection from charts of 75 patients with acromegaly who was treated at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros klinikos.Results: Patient population consisted of 21 males (28%) and 54 females (72%), mean age at diagnosis 52 ± 13 years. In most of the cases, macroad...

BackgroundPituitary apoplexy (PA) is a rare clinical syndrome, usually occurring in the pituitary adenoma due to a sudden bleeding and/or infarction. PA is usually seen in nonfunctional pituitary adenomas, but it can also be seen in ACTH secreting macroadenomas. The most common symptoms PA, which complicates 2 to 12% of pituitary adenomas, are severe and sudden headache, visual disturbances, or eye paralysis, and endocrinological abnormalities. PA is dia...