Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Diabetic mastopathy (DMP) is an uncommon fibrous disease of the breast, most commonly found in premenopausal women with type 1 diabetes exposed to long-standing insulin therapy. Often mimicking breast cancer clinically and on imaging, this condition poses a diagnostic challenge requiring pathological confirmation.Case presentation: A 68-year-old woman with type 1 DM and a family history of breast cancer in paternal aunt had an abnormal screeni...

Here we present a case of follicular thyroid cancer with elevation of thyroglobulin (Tg, in ng/ml) detected almost 10 years after initial surgery and radioactive iodine therapy (RAI). The elevated Tg persisted for years before he was found to have a metastasis in his kidney 16 years after his initial cancer treatment. A 78 year old male had a total thyroidectomy followed by RAI therapy in 2001 for a 2.4 cm follicular thyroid cancer. His Tg became mildly elevated in 2009, and c...