Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Leydig cell tumors (LCTs) are the most prevalent hormone-secreting testicular tumors, but overall, a rare testicular tumor subtype. Surgery is the main therapy with a favorable prognosis. Nevertheless, the development of central precocious puberty after surgery of the tumor has been observed on rare occasions.Case Report: An 8.5-year-old boy presented with symptoms of sexual precocity dating back to 4 years. He had pubic hair (P4), enlarged l...

BackgroundIn the pediatric population, the Leydig cell testicular tumor (TCL) is rare. It manifests communally in childhood with isosexual precocity gonadotropin-independent due to excess testosterone production.Case reportWe admitted a case of an 8.5 years old boy with the complaint of sexual precocity dating back to 4 years, which manifested by acne, hyper seborrhea, stature advance, penile enlargement, pub...

The overall incidence of carcinoid tumors has been estimated to be 1 to 2 cases /100000 people in USA. Carcinoid tumors habitually accounts for 1% of all cases of Cushing’s syndrome. The authors report an unusual case of ectopic secretion of corticotropin from pulmonary carcinoid tumor.A. F. is a 29 years old patient who has been referred for hypercorticism with patent features including trophical signs and severe depression.L...

Pituitary enlargement with long standing hypothyroidism is well established.The clinical evolution of pituitary hyperplasia to thyroid hormone should be monitored closely during primary hypothyroidism because of the rare possibility of an incidental non thyrotropic pituitary tumor that will not regress on thyroid hormone. We report a case of a pituitary mass not responding to thyroid hormone therapy.A 46 years old women was admitte...

Most macroprolactinomas are responsive to dopamine against drugs. Bromocriptine (BRC) has been available and extensively used in our country. The aims are to assess the outcome in 29 patients with macroprolactinomas who were treated with BRC.Material and methods: A multicentric study of 29 patients with macroprolactinoma (19 female; 10 males). The mean age was 33 years. The pituitary mass was larger than 10 mm in diameter. There was no endocrinological e...

Aims: Waist circumference is a convenient measure of abdominal adipose tissue,it correlates closely with BMI and is strongly linked to obesity- related risk factors. The sex specific waist circumference currently proposed for European male is 94 centimetres and for females is 80 cm. Thus, there is a need to develop sex specific waist circumference cut-offs points appropriate for different population (W.H.O).The aims are to determine the appropriate waist...