Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Prolactinoma are the most frequent pituitary adenoma, considered benign tumor and well respond to medical treatment, but sometimes, in men prolactinoma may be invasive and aggressive occurring neurological signs.Case 1: Male 53 years old, went to ophtalmology consulting for progressive vision problems associated with headaches from more than a year but denied. On examination visual field showed poor vision in left eye and temporal defect on...

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: Acromegaly is a chronic disease caused by hypersecretion of GH and IGF1, it is associated with a high risk of cancer, however the excess incidence of thyroid cancer remains controversial, we report four cases.Patients and methods: The diagnosis of acromegaly has been placed on a dosage of GH and IGFI, the diagnostic of carcinoma is based on histological study of the surgical specimen.Results: The sex ♀ predomina...