Endocrine Abstracts

A 48-year-old female was admitted to our hospital because of prolonged fever of unknown origin for three months, anemia, renal dysfunction, and hypercalcemia. There were no abnormal parameters of physical examination except fever of 37.6 °C, BMI of 26 5 kg/m2 after 11 kg of body weight loss in 2 months, and her blood pressure was 138/87 mmHg. C-reactive protein and WBC were 24.6 mg/dl and 10 900/μl, respectively. A/G ratio was elevated with total protein ...

A 31-years-old female was admitted to our hospital because of prolonged fever of unknown origin for 2 months. As she was originally diagnosed to have upper respiratory infection, antibiotics and antipyretic analgesics were prescribed. However, there is a recurrence of fever up to 39 °C without antipyretic analgesics. There were no changes in body weight or the size of clothes, and she did not notice any clinical features of Cushing’s syndrome. Her height and weight w...

Objective: The role of surgery for recurrent adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) is not well defined. Therefore, we evaluated the outcome after surgery for tumor recurrence in patients from the German ACC Registry.Methods: Only patients with first recurrence after initial R0 resection were investigated. Progression–free and overall survival (PFS, OS) after first recurrence were analyzed by Kaplan–Meier method. Cox proportional hazards regression mo...

Objectives: The TNM classification is a worldwide benchmark for reporting the extent of malignant disease and is intended as a prognostic tool to predict the outcome in patients with cancer. Until 2004, no TNM classification was available for adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and different staging systems were used. Due to the rarity of this malignancy, the prognostic value of different staging systems has never been compared directly in a large series of patients.<p class="a...