Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship of visceral fat accumulation with the existence of the carotid plaque in ischemic stroke patients.Materials and methods: Seventy patients (37 male, 33 female) with acute ischemic stroke were enrolled in the study. The carotid IMT and the existence of carotid plaque of the patients were evaluated by high resolution ultrasonography with a 7.5 MHz linear superficial array probe in B-mode. The abdo...

Adrenal metastasis is common (35%) among the patients with lung cancer, while less than 3% of the patients develop bilateral adrenal metastasis. Adrenal metastases are generally small and clinically asymptomatic. Adrenal insufficiency is rare despite the presence of adrenal metastasis. Lam et al. reported this ratio as 0.7%. We aimed to present a case with lung cancer and bilateral adrenal metastasis who developed adrenal insufficiency.A 63-year old male...

Adrenal lymphangioma is a rare benign tumors of the adrenal gland. Because of the increased use of imaging methods in recent times, the diagnosis is usually made incidentally. It is usually due to malformation between the lymphatic and the venous system. Those with small indiameters are generally asymptomatic and can be evacuated by needlea spiration. However, surgery is recommended for cysts over 6 cm in diameter due to risk of infection, bleeding, compression of neighboring ...

Non-islet cell tumor hypoglycemia (NICTH) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome and is the second most common cause of tumor-related hypoglycemia following insulinoma. Its prevalence is not known and is likely that many cases would go undiagnosed. In here, we describe a patient with PNET who presented with severe hypoglycemia.A 37-year-old male with known metastatic Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET) presented with weight loss, sweating, and tremor, epi...

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is one of the most aggressive and lethal human malignancies. The median survival time following diagnosis is typically six months or less. Rapidly growing tumors may cause respiratory failure by compressing trachea. A 71-year-old woman presented with 1-month history of dyspnea, cyanosis and rapidly enlarging neck mass for the past 2 weeks. She had been suffering from multinodular goiter disease. Physical examination revealed a large, fixed an...

Aim: It is well known that there is a strong relationship between chronic inflammation and tumorigenic process. The cytological diagnosis of follicular neoplasm (FN) carries a 20–30% risk of malignancy for thyroid nodules. In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether preoperative neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a predictive factor for malignancy in thyroid nodules diagnosed as FN on cytology.Materials and methods: A total of 139 patients with...

Addison’s disease (AD), is an autoimmune disorder. However, its association with connective tissue diseases is rare. Here, we report a case of AD associated with ankylosing spondylitis (AS).Case: A 57-year-old male patient admitted to internal medicine polyclinic with complaints of debility and anorexia. In the physical examination, he has hyperpigmentation on his skin, gingiva and palm lines. Blood pressure was 80/50 mmHg, pulse was 64/min. The oth...

Introduction: Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is an inherited syndrome characterized by reduced responsiveness of target tissues to thyroid hormone (TH). It is characterized by high serum concentrations of free T4 (Ft4) and usually free T3 (Ft3) accompanied by normal or slightly high serum TSH concentrations. When RTH is suspected, the diagnosis should be confirmed by direct sequencing of the TR-β gene to identify mutations....

Aim: Basal energy expenditure (BEE), also called basal metabolic rate, increases in cancer patients and is thought to contribute to the weight loss observed in cancer cachexia. Cancer type, pathological stage and duration of disease influence BEE. The aim of this study was to evaluate BEE and body composition in breast cancer patients.Methods: Forty-three women with breast cancer whose received adjuvant chemotherapy and 80 healthy age and body mass index...

Introduction: Riedel’s thyroiditis (RT) is a rare and chronic fibro-inflammatory disease firstly described by Riedel in 1896. It is characterized by a dense fibrosis that replaces normal thyroid parenchyma. The fibrotic process invades adjacent structures of the neck and extends beyond the thyroid capsule, which differentiates RT from other inflammatory or fibrotic disorders of the thyroid. The overall incidence in outpatients is 1.06 per 100 000. We presented here a case...