Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The sellar plasmacytoma, an exceptional localization that can be solitary or associated with a multiple myeloma. We report the case of a sellar mass wrongly diagnosed as an invasive non-functional pituitary adenoma, the diagnosis was rectified postoperatively by the anatomopathological study.Case description: A 44 year old female patient, with history of cholecystectomy and megaloblastic anemia, was referred to our center for management of ...

Introduction: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is characterized by increased intracranial pressure without a detactable cause. Risk factors for the development of this syndrome are obesity and young female population. IIH due to hyperthyroidism is rare in the literature, mentioned in few individual case reports. The exact mechanism of how hyperthyroidism causes IIH is not known. We are reporting the case of a young women with Graves’ disease presenting with symp...

Introduction: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a systemic disorder characterized by clonal proliferation of immature dendritic cells observed mainly in children. The affection of the sellar region in adults with central diabetes insipidus as the first manifestation of the disease is extremely rare creating a problem of etiological diagnosis especially when central diabetes insipidus (CDI) is apparently isolated.Case description: A 21-year-old man w...

Introduction: Pheochromocytomas(PC)are rare catecholamine-producing neuroendocrine tumors. Germline variants of the MYC-associated factor (MAX) gene have been associated with familial PC and paragangliomas (PGL) with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance and an overall frequency estimated at 1.9%. Other endocrine and non endocrine tumors can be associated to germline MAX mutations.Case presentation: We report a case of a 37 years old male patient,...

Background: Familial chylomicronemia syndrome is a rare disorder of lipoprotein metabolism with an incidence of one per million in the general population. It is characterized by marked elevation of triglyceride and chylomicron levels, resulting in lipemic plasma and recurrent attacks of acute pancreatitis, eruptive xanthoma, hepatosplenomegaly, and lipemia retinalis.Case Presentation: We report the case of an 18 years old patient, an only son, from a can...