Endocrine Abstracts

Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a rare syndrome. It was first reported by Silver, Russel and al, who described children with low birth weight, postnatal statural delay, peculiar facies and asymmetry of the body. We report the case of two sibling children born to non-consanguineous parents, admitted to our level for the exploration of severe staturo-weight retardation in relation to marked intrauterine growth retardation. The first child is a 04-year-old girl, born at term. It...

Nelson syndrome (N S) is the set of symptoms related to a pituitary macroadenoma secreting ACTH developed following a bilateral adrenalectomy (BA). Its frequency is thought to account for up to 40% of adult cushing diseases (CD) who have undergone BA. We report the case of a patient with macroinvasive NS revealed by pituitary apoplexy. Mr M.L aged 35 years, followed for CD with negative imaging evolving for ten years, treated with BA. The evaluation at 03 months post-surgery n...