Items tagged “endocrine”
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Looser zones
Looser zones, also known as cortical infractions, Milkman lines or pseudofractures, are wide, transverse lucencies with sclerotic borders traversing partway through a bone, usually perpendicular to the involved cortex, and are associated most frequently with osteomalacia and rickets.
Given that...
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Acromegaly
Published
20 Mar 2009
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Hereditary connective tissue disease
Hereditary connective tissue diseases are an enlarging group of connective tissue diseases that have a degree of inheritance risk. They include:
Marfan syndrome: genetic disease causing abnormal fibrillin
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: progressive deterioration of collagen and affects joints, heart ...
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Chromaffin cells
Chromaffin cells are neuroendocrine cells found predominantly in the medulla of the adrenal gland. They are also found in other ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system and are derived from the embryonic neural crest.
Embryology
They arise in the fifth week of fetal development when neuroblas...
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Vagal paraganglioma
Vagal paragangliomas (previously known as glomus vagale tumors) are tumors that occur along the path of the vagus nerve (CN X). They are a subset of extra-adrenal neuroendocrine tumors that are derived from the nonchromaffin paraganglion cells.
Terminology
The term "glomus" was historically u...
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Adrenal calcification
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01 Apr 2009
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Adrenal calcification
Adrenal calcification is not a rare finding in healthy asymptomatic people and is usually the result of previous hemorrhage or tuberculosis. Addison disease patients only occasionally develop calcification.
Pathology
Etiology
Hemorrhage
sepsis: Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
blunt abdomi...
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Neuroblastoma
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02 Apr 2009
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Congenital hypothyroidism - lingual thyroid
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18 May 2009
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Nuclear medicine
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Pheochromocytoma
Published
02 Jul 2009
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CT
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McCune-Albright syndrome
McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) (also known as McCune-Albright-Sternberg syndrome) is a genetic disorder characterized by the triad:
endocrinopathy: precocious puberty
polyostotic fibrous dysplasia: more severe than in sporadic cases
cutaneous pigmentation: coast of Maine 'café au lait' spots
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Pancreatic cancer (T4) - uncinate process
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14 Aug 2009
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CT
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Pancreatic metastasis from renal cell carcinoma
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14 Aug 2009
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CT
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Pancreatic pseudocysts
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14 Aug 2009
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CT
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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD), also referred as post-transplant lymphoproliferation disorder, represents a variety of conditions ranging from lymphoid hyperplasia to malignancy, included in the WHO classification of haematolymphoid tumors under "lymphoid proliferations and ...
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Agenesis of the left thyroid lobe (thyroid hemiagenesis)
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08 Sep 2009
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CT
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Congenital hypothyroidism (mnemonic)
The features of an infant with congenital hypothyroidism can be recalled with the following mnemonic:
5 Ps
Mnemonic
P: pot belly
P: pallor
P: puffy face
P: protruding umbilicus
P: poked out tongue
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Pituitary metastasis
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23 Sep 2009
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Pineal lymphoma
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23 Sep 2009
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MRI
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Cold nodule on nuclear thyroid scan
Published
15 Oct 2009
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Nuclear medicine
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