Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Insulinoma visualization is the most difficult stage of diagnosis of this disease. Currently, in most cases the contrast-enhanced multislice computer tomography of abdomen and retroperitoneal space (CE-MSCT) is the method of choice in topical diagnosis of insulinoma. This method is associated with radiation exposure and administration of contrast agents, so it is invasive. Thus, an alternative highly informative and safe method for initial topical diagnosis of in...

Objective: To estimate the outcome of neurosurgery in patients with Cushing’s disease (CD) with and without pituitary adenoma visualisation on MRI.Material and methods: Patients with confirmed CD (11.2008–11.2014) by both inferior petrosal sinus sampling (IPSS) and histological evaluation after neurosurgery were enrolled into the study. Subjects were referred for IPSS because of non-visualised pituitary adenoma or contradictory results of non-i...