Endocrine Abstracts

Cortex protecting surgery for bilateral pheochromocytoma protects the patient from adrenal insufficiency. Risk of relapse is low. 35 years old woman had paroxysmal seizures and hypertension crises for the last year which became more frequent in the last 10 days. She had thyroidectomy and under the use of levothyroxine the patient. Because of a nodule on ultrasonography and paternal history of MEN 2A which led to a check of calcitonin level that resulted 8 times higher than the...

Although primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is seen in young women at 8/million ratio, it is more rare to be seen with pregnancy. If diagnosed and not treated during pregnancy, the mother may have nephrolithiasis, hypercalcemic crisis, hypertension, preeclampsia, pancreatitis, death and intrauterine growth retardation in the fetus, low birth weight, preterm delivery, intrauterine death or postpartum tetany. Forty-year-old woman at the 14th week of gestation was diagnosed with ...

Introduction: Adrenal schwannoma is an extremely uncommon cause of incidentaloma. It originates from neural sheath Schwann cells of the adrenal gland. Herein, we report a case of left adrenal schwannoma that could not be diagnosed preoperatively.Case report: A 53 years old female morbid obese (BMI: 66.68 kg/m2) patient was referred to endocrinology policlinic because of 5 cm left adrenal mass detected on abdominal screening while preparing pat...