Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Insulinoma is a rare pancreatic tumor, typically sporadic, solitary and benign. However, nonspecific symptoms of hypoglycemia, negative laboratory investigations and small size of these tumors can retard the diagnosis, and symptoms may be misattributed to psychiatric, cardiac, neurological disorders.Case presentation: A 35-year-old male had history of night time seizures with hallucinations, delirium and spasms, lasting from 10 minutes to 1...

Introduction: Ectopic benign thyroid tissue outside the normal migration path of the thyroid is an extremely rare condition that, to our knowledge, has never been described in the orbit.Clinical case: 75-year-old woman with nodular thyroid was referred to Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos for fine needle aspiration biopsy. Her complaints were palpitations, difficulty swallowing, diplopia, exophthalmos with medial and –superio...