Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Peritoneal implantation of benign pheochromocytomas – also known as pheochromocytomatosis – is a rare event caused by tumour rupture during surgical intervention. In our tertiary referral centre, we managed over two hundred patients with adrenal pheochromocytoma in the past 27 years. Now we report on the two cases diagnosed and followed with pheochromocytomatosis.Case 1: A 33-year-old man presenting with paroxysmal hypertension ...

Introduction: Clinicopathological characterisation ofneuroendocrine neoplasms could provide improved prognostic information even at the time of the diagnosis.Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the clinicopathological features of a large cohort of patients with neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs).Patients and methods: The study included 210 patients (95 men and 115 women) with histologically confirmed and verified neu...

Introduction: Adrenocortical cancer is a rare malignant tumour with a poor prognosis. The incidence is 0.7–2.0/million/year.Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the clinicopathological features and prognostic factors of a large cohort of patients with adrenocortical cancer diagnosed between 1974–2019.Patients and Methods: The study included eighty patients (22 men and 58 women) with histologically confi...