Endocrine Abstracts

Pheochromocytomas are rare tumors located in the adrenal medulla, that derive from the chromaffin cells and produce catecholamines. They are an uncommon cause of hypertension, and only 50% of the patients present symptoms compatible with this pathology. Here we describe the case of a 67-year-old man who was referred with h/o mild headache, hypertension and adrenal incidentaloma detected by CT abdomen and pelvis which showed 4.5 cm indeterminate nodule in the left adrenal gland...

Pituitary apoplexy is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition that occurs due to sudden hemorrhage or infarction in a pre-existing pituitary adenoma. Here, we present a case study of a 20-year-old girl who presented to the emergency department (ED) with severe headache due to pituitary apoplexy. The patient had a history of one-year intermittent headache, which was diagnosed as migraine/cluster headache in previous ED visits. She was on Mirena coil and had amenorrhea...

Introduction: There are many causes of central diabetes insipidus including trauma, drugs, metastatic tumor, lymphoma, leukemia, inflammation, virus infection and gene mutation. They’re very few cases in England reported as pituitary involvement of NHL [no-Hodgkin lymphoma] Approximately about 31 cases were reported in the literature as NHL of the pituitary as in Pub medicine, however in these series of cases the most common presentation among them was ce...

MEN1 is a rare hereditary tumor syndrome characterized by a predisposition to a multitude of endocrine neoplasms primarily of parathyroid, enteropancreatic, and anterior pituitary origin and non endocrine tumor. Here we will discuss a case of 36 yrs. old male who was referred for high calcium on routine blood test. Subsequent investigations confirmed primary hyperparathyroidism. His serum calcium level was 2.71, PTH 7.5 Pmol/l, and vitamin D 57.4 nmol/l on presentation and was...