Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Ectopic parathyroid adenoma is a rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism, it accounts for 10% of parathyroid adenomas.Observation: A 56 years old man with no past medical history developed sudden acute renal failure after few weeks of fatigability, polydypsia and emesis. Hypercalcemia of 4.20 mmol/l (2.2–2.5 mmol/l), serum creatinine of 306 mmol/l, hypophospatemia 0.72 mmol/l (0.80–1.5 mmol/l) and high alkaline phosphatase 205 I...

Introduction: Thyroid lymphoma is a rare thyroid disease, occurring mostly in the elderly. We report a series of 13 cases from a single centre.Material and methods: Among our regional registry (1294 cases of thyroid cancer), we report 16 cases of thyroid lymphoma (with sufficient data on follow up for 13).Results: Mean age was 68.3 years (range 38–85) and included 12 women for 1 man. Nine patients also presented with Hashimoto...