Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Medullary thyroid cancer is a rare neuroendocrine neoplasm that can secrete variety of hormones, including ACTH. Cushing syndrome due to ectopic ACTH secretion is a rare complication of medullary thyroid cancer, usually accociated with metastatic disease. Around 50 percent of patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma and ectopic Cushing syndrome die due to complications of hypercortisolism. Based on the aforementioned, efficient management of hypercortisolism is cr...

Background: Hypopituitarism can be expressed throughout many symptoms and can stay unrecognized for a long time. Xanthogranulomas are extremely rare in sellar region, with prevalence of ~0.6% in reported pituitary tumours and are presented with visual disturbance, hyperprolactinemia, diabetes insipidus and/or hypopituitarism. Its ethiopathogenesis is still not certain, but it can be of primary or systemic cause. It’s almost always diagnosed postoperatively and has good ou...