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...

The prognosis of thyroid anaplastic carcinoma is poor. Yet can prognosis criteria change the therapeutic options?Method: From a series of 26 cases from a single group recorded between 1990 and 2006, we analyzed the outcome after treatment based on surgery, radio and chemotherapy and looked for prognosis criteria.Results: All but one patients died with a mean survival of 273 days (median survival of 130 days). Over 50% of patients h...

Thyroid anaplastic carcinoma (TAC) is rare among thyroid cancers. Few surveys on these diseases are available.Aim: To analyze the clinical and pathological characteristics of TAC in Auvergne, France, from a series of 26 patients among a cohort of over 1500 thyroid carcinomas (i.e. 1.7% of total thyroid cancers).Results: Mean age was 72.1 years (range 42–91 years), with a sex ratio of 19 women to 7 men. A previous history of th...