Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Mucinous ovarian cystoadenoma with stromal luteinization and hilar cell hyperplasia is a rare cause of hirsutism and virilization and only few cases are described in literature. We present a rare case of mucinous cystadenoma with hypertestosteronemia.A 38-years old woman came to our observation for severe hirsutism and oligomenorrhea. Hormonal work-up showed severe hypertestosteronemia (total testosterone: 4.39 ng/ml) with high levels of DH...

Introduction: Metoclopramide is known to exert stimulatory effects on catecholamine secretion, having been used in the past as provocative test in the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. We describe a patient with an incidentally discovered pheochromocytoma after metoclopramide administration.Case report: A 64 years-old woman underwent total thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter with ‘follicular proliferation Thy 3’ at FNAB of the target nodule. The...