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This section concerns all aspects of endocrine tumours and cancer including, but not limited to: prevention, diagnosis and management, as well as related molecular genetics, and pathophysiology.
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Spontaneous haemorrhage into a parathyroid adenoma is a rare and potentially life-threatening presentation.
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2017 17:35
Published on: 21 June 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Endocrine Disorders 2017 17:42
Case report
Adrenal corticomedullary mixed tumours are very rare. Its mechanism is rarely reported. Here we report the first case of a corticomedullary mixed tumour resembling a “small adrenal gland” with distinct arrange...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2017 17:9
Published on: 13 February 2017
Research article
Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is the tool of choice for evaluating thyroid nodules with the majority classified as benign following initial assessment. However, concern remains about false negative resu...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2016 16:45
Published on: 2 August 2016
Research article
Small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors (SI-NETs) originate from the enterochromaffin cells in the ileum and jejunum. The knowledge about genetic and epigenetic abnormalities is limited. Low mRNA expression lev...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2016 16:19
Published on: 23 April 2016
Research article
Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignant disease with a poor prognosis. Our aims were to study survival and to explore prognostic markers.
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2016 16:15
Published on: 17 March 2016
Research article
There is rising incidence of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (GEP- NETs) in many parts of the world, but epidemiological data from Asian populations is rare.
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2016 16:12
Published on: 24 February 2016
Research article
The rare incidence of neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) has contributed to a paucity of large epidemiologic studies of patients with this condition. We investigated the occurrence and clinicopathologic features ...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2016 16:8
Published on: 12 February 2016
Case report
Aldosterone-producing adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare malignancy, which is usually diagnosed by histopathological examination of the excised tumor. In inoperable cases, aldosterone-producing ACC diagnosed b...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2016 16:3
Published on: 16 January 2016
Case report
Anasarca in patients with lymphoma is a rare symptom. We report a patient with DLBCL associated with pituitary gland infiltration that was diagnosed based on significant anasarca.
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2015 15:10
Published on: 25 March 2015
Research article
A published clinical prediction score indicated that a unilateral adrenal adenoma and either hypokalemia or an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 100 ml/min/1.73 m2 was 100% specific for unilateral primar...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:94
Published on: 11 December 2014
Research article
Non-palpable thyroid nodules can be difficult to access by conventional ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration, particularly when they are intrathoracic. Many of these patients are subject to multiple follow...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:88
Published on: 22 November 2014
Case report
The involvement of the testis by metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma has never been described before. We describe the first case of metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma affecting testis and inguinal lymph...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:84
Published on: 11 October 2014
Case report
We report the case of a patient who had a non-functional metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour (pNET), which changed in functionality during the course of the disease. This case demonstrates the effectiv...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:70
Published on: 24 August 2014
Research article
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are a group of rare tumors. Chromogranin A (CgA) was considered as the most practical and useful serum tumor marker in PNET patients. But peripheral blood levels of CgA...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:64
Published on: 7 August 2014
Case report
Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is a malignant disease most commonly diagnosed in the setting of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and in patients receiving immunosuppressive treatment. Pulmonary KS has never...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:63
Published on: 30 July 2014
Research article
Promyelocytic leukaemia zinc finger (PLZF) is a transcriptional repressor that was originally isolated from a patient with promyelocytic leukaemia. PLZF also affects key elements for cell cycle progression, su...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:52
Published on: 3 July 2014
Case report
Hypoglycemic episodes are infrequent in individuals without a history of diabetes mellitus or bariatric surgery. When hypoglycemia does occur in such individuals, an uncommon but important diagnosis to conside...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:49
Published on: 17 June 2014
Research article
Although chronic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and androgen hyperstimulation are assumed to be involved in the pathogenesis of adrenal myelolipomas associated with poor-compliance patients with congenital...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:42
Published on: 12 May 2014
Case report
Hypoglycemia secondary to ectopic insulin secretion of non-pancreatic tumors is rare.
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:36
Published on: 17 April 2014
Case report
Seminomas have been rarely associated with malignant hypercalcemia. The responsible mechanism of hypercalcemia in this setting has been described to be secondary to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D secretion. The relat...
BMC Endocrine Disorders 2014 14:32
Published on: 10 April 2014
