Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pheochromocytomas are characterized by a high attenuation value on unenhanced computed tomography (CT). It is not known whether pheochromocytoma can be outruled as a cause of adrenal incidentalomas based on unenhanced attenuation values only. We evaluated the outcome of routine biochemical screening for pheochromocytoma in a series of patients with adrenal incidentalomas in relationship to the unenhanced attenuation values on CT.Design and ...

Introduction: Up to 10% of patients with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) may undergo reversal of hypogonadotropism and some of them even attain normal sperm count in adulthood. However, clinical and molecular genetic features of these patients and the triggers leading to reversal of HH are not well understood. We studied whether Finnish reversal variants displayed a common phenotypic or genotypic feature that would predict the clinical course of HH.<p class="...

Background: The use of conventional radiotherapy (CR) in the treatment of pituitary adenomas has been associated with adverse effects such as development of hypopituitarism, cognitive impairment and optic nerve damage. Fractionated stereotactic conformal radiotherapy (FSRT) provides a new treatment regimen and was introduced at our University Hospital in 1996.Objective: To evaluate the effects of FSRT on tumour size, hormonal overproduction and developme...