Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Despite recommendations neuroendocrine tumors may still pose diagnostic and therapeutic problems. Patients are referred to specialized centers when their disease has already progressed to generalized stage.Case report: A 64-year old male patient was referred to the Department of Endocrinology at the Pomeranian Medical University in 2013 because of liver metastases. His medical history included a surgical treatment of left lung tumor in 2006...

Introduction: It is believed that hypoglycemia in the elderly is a dangerous condition and may result in stroke and death. We observed five female patients with insulinoma and over 20-year-long survival.Material: The material includes five female with the diagnosis of insulinoma. Patients’ age ranged from 78 to 91 years while disease duration ranged from 21 to 34 years.Methods: In all the patients, the diagnosis of insulinoma ...

Introduction: Neuroendocrine cancer of the ampulla of Vater area belongs to the most rare GEP-neuroendocrine tumors (NET). In the literature, there are few reports of extremely malignant course of this cancer. Among 242 patients with NET from the Department of Endocrinology in 2009–2013, 58 pancreatic NET were discovered, among which seven patients had neuroendocrine cancer of the ampulla of Vater. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics, stagi...