Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Tumors of the pituitary gland and sellar region, called pitiutary adenoma (PA) represent approximatly 10% of all central nervous system tumors. The characteristics of these tumors may vary from population to population.Aim: The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate and understand the clinicopathological characteristics, the invasiveness, tumor features and clinical symptoms of PA in adult patients at south great plain region of Hu...

: Thyroid cancers represent approximately 1% of new cancer diagnoses. Thyroid malignancies are divided into papillary carcinomas (80%), follicular carcinomas (10%), medullary carcinomas (5–10%), anaplastic carcinomas (1–2%) other rare tumours (primary thyroid lymphomas, primary thyroid sarcomas). The main therapeutic options are surgery (mainly total thyreoidectomy), radioiodine treatment (depending on the type and stage of the tumour), levothyroxine therapy (thyroid...

Thyroid cancers represent ~1% of new cancer diagnoses. Thyroid malignancies are divided into papillary carcinomas (80%), follicular carcinomas (10%), medullary carcinomas (5–10%), anaplastic carcinomas (1–2%), and other rare tumours (primary thyroid lymphomas and primary thyroid sarcomas). The main therapeutic options are surgery (mainly total thyreoidectomy), radioiodine treatment, levothyroxine therapy (TSH suppression dose), others (external beam irradiation, chem...

Introduction: Hypophysitis is an inflammatory disease of the pituitary that may mimic tumors. Primary hypophysitis has been classified as lymphocytic (LH), granulomatous (GH), and xanthomatous (XH). It has been recently proposed to be an IgG4-related autoimmune disease (serum IgG4 concentration: 135 mg/dl), proven by tissue IgG4 immunostaining.Case description: A 23-year-old men suffered from typical cluster type headache. Two years after the first sympt...

Introduction: Hypophysitis is an inflammatory disease of the pituitary gland that may mimic pituitary tumors clinically and radiologically. Primary hypophysitis has traditionnaly been classified as lymphocytic (LH), granulomatous (GH), and xanthomatous (XH).Case description: We report on a case of a xanthomatous hypophysitis initially diagnosed as pituitary adenoma. A 23-year-old men suffered from typical cluster type headache. Two years after the first ...