Endocrine Abstracts

IntroductionPituitary apoplexy (PA) is a rare medical emergency caused by acute haemorrhage and/or infarction within a pituitary or usually pituitary tumour. Typically, PA is characterised by severe headache, visual fields defects, decreased visual acuity, cranial nerve palsies and hypopituitarism. However, many patients present with mild or ambiguous signs and symptoms or even PA is an incidental radiological finding.Aim<p cla...

Background: Gastrinoma is a functional neuroendocrine neoplasm (NEN) most commonly located in the duodenum (70%) and the pancreas (25%). The initial confirmation of NEN’s secretion profile does not exclude the possibility of a new hormonal activity of the tumor occurring in the course of the disease. Ectopic Cushing syndrome has been described in up to 5% of gastrinoma cases and hypercortisolemia may worsen the patient’s prognosis.Case presenta...