Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is the inflammatory disease of thyroid gland, which commonly affects middle-aged females. SAT is rarely seen in extreme age groups. Herein, we reported an 82-year-old patient presenting recurrent SAT.Case report: An 82-year-old female patient presented fever, neck pain, weakness, and dizziness. She had hypertension and peripheral vascular disease. She had a 2-week of symptom history and admitted to emergency servi...

Case report: A 56-year-old woman admitted to emergency department with fever, dyspnea, productive cough, palpitations, diffuse myalgia, and malasia. Physical examination revealed an anxious-appearing woman with fine tremor in the hands. Her pulse was 140 beats/minute and irregular; blood pressure, 140/90 mmHg; temperature 38.6 °C, respiratory rate 40 breaths per min, and oxygen saturation 91% without supplemental oxygen. In auscultation, bilaterally rales and bronchial br...

Aim: To determine whether multiple fine needle passes to the same thyroid nodule in the fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) session affect sufficient and/or atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS) cytological result.Materials and Methods: Ultrasonography (US) and cyto-histopathology results of the nodules of patients who were diagnosed with thyroid nodules and underwent FNA between May-August 2021 wer...

Backgorund: Adrenal incidentalomas (AI) are lesions discovered incidentally on imaging without clinical symptoms or examination findings. AI can produce hormones in 5-30% of cases. Autonomic cortisol secretion (ACS) is the most common of these. Although ACS is asymptomatic, it increases the risk of metabolic disorders.Methods: Patients aged ≥18 years with adrenal adenoma and upper abdominal MRI who presented and were examined in the endocrinology o...

Aim: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant genetic disease characterized by increased levels of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-chol). Despite relatively high prevalance and significant association with increased mortality, the awareness of physicians and patients is low and it is an underdiagnosed and undertreated disease. We aimed to detect patients with FH and determine treatment status and compliance.Materials and metho...

Introduction: 80–90% of insulinomas are smaller than 2 cm, equally located in the head, body and tail of pancreas. Computer tomography (CT) is 75%, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is 55–90%, endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is 85–95% and selective arterial calcium stimulation test (SACST) is 95–100% sensitive in the diagnosis of insulinomas. Here, we presented two cases of insulinoma which could not be located by conventional methods and evaluated with SAC...

Aim: Although nonsecretory parathyroid carcinoma is relatively more frequent, nonsecretory parathyroid adenoma was also reported. It is thought to precede functioning parathyroid adenoma.Case report: An iso-hypoechoic 6.5×9.5×16.1 mm thyroid nodule with irregular borders in the superior-posterior part of right thyroid lobe was observed in ultrasonography in a 44-year-old female euthyroid patient. Fine-needle aspiration (FNAB) biopsy resulted wi...

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common endocrine cancer however extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) of the thyroid gland is quite rare. The simultaneous association of both cancers is much more rare.Case report: 65-year-old woman underwent a thyroid ultrasound examination due to palpable thyroid nodules. Thyroid ultrasound revealed thyroiditis and multiple nodules on the right and ...

Introduction: Parathyroid surgical therapy differs because the glands are small and of variable number and location. Although localization studies have improved greatly, we may not reliably determine the number and location of all diseased glands preoperatively. Ultrasonography (US) is the most widely used imaging method. In this study, we aimed to demonstrate how the surgical outcomes change when the surgeon accompanies the endocrinologist during preoperative ultrasonography ...

Introduction: Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is a rare endocrine malignancy which accounts for 0.005% of all cancers and less than 1% of primary hyperparathyroidism cases. This uncommon tumor usually occurs during the fifth decade of life, with equal frequency in both sexes, and has an indolent but progressive course. It’s frequently symptomatic and patients may have high values of serum calcium and parathyroid hormone (PTH) with a palpable cervical mass. PC generally occurs ...