Endocrine Abstracts

As non-invasive imaging techniques, such as sonography, become more and more available, there is a growing incidence of diagnosing of non-fuctioning adrenal tumors. They are usually called adrenal incidentalomas due to absence of any evident clinical manifestations. Adrenal incidentalomas are found in 2-8% population. Although generally non-funtioning, those tumors may secrete abundant quantities of steroid hormones and thus evoke glucose intolerance, lipid disorders, thromboe...

Pituitary resistance to thyroid hormone is a very rare cause of hyperthyroidism. It is characterized by normal, or elevated TSH concentration with high concentration of thyroxine and triiodothyronine.Here, we present a case of a 24-year-old woman who suffered from mild thyrotoxicosis and diffuse goiter for ten years. For several years she was under treatment with methimazole, but without any significant improvement, apart from the enlargement of the thyr...