Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Given their prevalence of up to 5% of the general population, A discovery of an asymptomatic adrenal mass (incidentaloma) during the investigation of an unrelated condition is relatively common. The issue of crucial importance is the histopathological differentiation between benign lesions and malignant tumours of the adrenal gland.Objective: To evaluate the secretory or non-secretory profile and the benign and malignant nature of incidenta...

Introduction: Adrenal incidentalomas are frequent, their prevalence reaches 5% of the general population, incidental diagnosis from an imaging examination motivated by an extra-adrenal sign is common. Diabetes may be present in patients with adrenal incidentaloma, it is often diabetes secondary to secretion of cathecholamines, mineralocorticoids and cortisol.Objective: To evaluate the clinical-biological profile of adrenal incidentalomas, as well as thei...

Introduction: Magnesium is the fourth most abundant cation in the body and plays an important physiological role in many of its functions. However, an association between hypomagnesemia and insulin resistance (IR) in diabetes has recently been found.Objective: To determine the correlation between hypomagnesemia, glycemic imbalance and the degenerative complications of type 2 diabetes.Materials and methods: We conducted a prospectiv...

Introduction: Corticosteroid-induced diabetes (CID) is a common and potentially harmful problem in clinical practice. Its pathophysiological mechanisms are multiple, from increased hepatic neoglucogenesis to peripheral insulin resistance or direct toxic effect on the β cell. The aim of our study was to study the clinical profile of patients who developed corticosteroid-induced diabetes and its factors of occurrence.Method: We report a retrospective ...

Introduction: According to the literature, there is a link between obesity and thyroid cancer. A high body mass index (BMI) increases the risk of thyroid cancer and its progression, although their mechanism is still unknown.Objective: To evaluate the association between obesity and the clinical-biological profile of differentiated thyroid cancers.Materials and methods: We conducted a retrospective study carried out in the Endocrino...

Introduction: Patients with either papillary thyroid carcinoma or melanoma have an increased risk of developing the other cancer as a second primary malignant neoplasm. We report a rare case of malignant melanoma (CM) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) that were diagnosed and treated simultaneously.Observation: We report a case about a 46-year-old male, in whom examination of a skin biopsy that was obtained from a lesion in the right big toe revealed ...

Introduction: Differentiated thyroid cancers are rare (less than 1% of cancers), and generally have a positive prognosis: Their mortality rate increases steadily with age.Objective: To assess the biologic behavior of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in patients aged 65 years or older and evaluated factors that influenced long-term survival\.Patients and methods: We conducted a retrospective study of elderly patients (>65 years)...

Introduction: Thyroid carcinoma is more frequent in women of childbearing age. It can alter both fertility and pregnancy’s course.Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate pregnancy’s influence on thyroid carcinoma’s prognosis as a factor of recurrence or progression.Patients and Methods: We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study concerning 30 pregnant patients followed for thyroid papillary carcinoma w...

Introduction: Adrenal tumors present with clinical features and signs unique to their specific hormonal hypersecretion. Among adrenal tumors, oncocytic pheochromocytomas are exceedingly rare tumours. We report an unusual clinical presentation of an adrenal cortical tumor with histologic features of an oncocytic pheochromocytoma.Case Report: We present a case of a 64-year-old man with moderate hypertension, type 2 diabetes and an incidental adrenal mass o...

Introduction: The association between hypomagnesemia and insulin resistance in diabetes and arterial hypertension has been strongly found, but its role in the metabolic syndrome has not been established.Objective: To determine the magnesium status of patients with metabolic syndrome.Materials and methods: We conducted a prospective study on patients followed in the service of Endocrinology-Diabetology since September 2018 including...