Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Percutaneous ablation has been used over the years for the minimally invasive treatment of liver, kidney, thyroid and, although less frequent, adrenal cysts. We describe the case of a young patient with a large adrenal cyst treated with ethanol ablation, avoiding adrenalectomy.Clinical case: We present a 32-year-old woman who is referred to Endocrinology due to a 10 cm adrenal incidental finding in an MRI performed due to disc herniation. A...

Introduction: The presentation of new onset hyperandrogenism is extremely rare in postmenopausal women. In premenopausal women, the most common cause of androgen excess is polycystic ovary syndrome. In contrast, when hyperandrogenism develops in postmenopausal women, it is usually associated with other causes, such as ovarian hyperthecosis or an androgen secreting tumor. We describe 5 patients with hyperandrogenism (Table 1). Total Testosterone 0.06–0.86 ng/ml, free testo...

Introduction: Central diabetes insipidus (DI) is a common complication after pituitary surgery, but is transient in the majority of patients. The aim of our study is to determine the incidence and course of DI in the postoperative period and to characterize the factors associated with this disease.Methods: We performed a retrospective study of 44 patients (50% females) with a mean age of 54 years (24–83), treated with transsphenoidal (TSS) or transf...

Introduction: Ectopic Cushing’s syndrome (ECS) is due to ACTH secretion of no pituitary neuroendocrine tumors and represents around 5–10% of all cases of ACTH dependent Cushing’s syndromes.Methods: Six cases of ECS diagnosticated from 2008 to 2017 were studied. Patients’ age ranges from 36 to 69 years (mean 53), four females and two males. Three had pancreatic tumors, two small cell lung carcinomas and one pheocromocytoma. At diagnosi...