Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Vitamin D (VD) deficiency is important risk factor of fractures. Yet, the relation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels and recovery of fractures is poorly studied. Our aim was to investigate the VD supply in hip fractures also with regard to lifestyle and other clinical (malignancy, kidney and liver disease, osteoporosis) conditions.Method: 25OHD (protein binding assay, Cobas, Roche) and parathyroid hormone (PTHi) (electrochemilumines...

We report the case of a 55 years old female patient with parallel appearance of mucoepidermoid carcinoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma. She had autoimmune adrenal insufficiency and a pulmonary adenocarcinoma cured by lobectomy and external irradiation six years before. She had been referred to our department because of a rapidly growing thyroid nodule. Aspiration cytology suspected papillary tumor and a tumor of non-thyroid origin as well. Thyroidectomy and bilateral neck ly...

Aim: Brown tumors are a very rare and serious complication of sustained undiagnosed secondary hyperparathyroidism. Diagnosis and differential diagnosis are made by combining clinical, biochemical, radiological and pathological findings. We present the case of a male with chronic renal disease and multiple bone damage.A 58-year-old male was referred to the endocrine clinic because of lower back and pleural pain. He was an obese smoker with a heavy medical...