Most recent by Stephanie L. Lee, MD, PhD, ECNU
Incidental finding leads to parathyroid adenoma discovery
A 52-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes and hypertension was found to have hypercalcemia incidentally on routine blood testing. She did not have family history of hypercalcemia.
Active surveillance of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma not for all patients
A 43-year-old Hispanic man was referred to the endocrine clinic after his primary care provider felt a thyroid nodule during an annual physical exam. His medical history was unremarkable.
Incidental hypermetabolic, 18F-FDG-avid thyroid nodule on PET scan
A 73-year-old man was sent for consultation for a hypermetabolic thyroid nodule found on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET imaging.
Imaging technique reveals primary mediastinal goiter
A 65-year-old man was referred for a mediastinal mass in the right paratracheal area that was found on a routine chest radiograph.
Middle-aged man diagnosed with giant invasive prolactinoma
A 52-year-old man was referred to our clinic for the evaluation and management of a large pituitary mass.
Hypophysitis and the ‘dural tail sign’
A 34-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of a pituitary mass. The patient reported that she was well until her 38th week of her fifth pregnancy, when she developed blurred vision and 8 to 10 days of a frontal headache.
Thyroid cancer presenting as autonomous thyroid nodule
A 32-year-old woman was referred to the endocrine clinic for abnormal thyroid function, fatigue and depression.
‘The worst headache of my life’
A 30-year-old man was referred for evaluation of a pituitary mass. The patient reported he was previously well until he developed a severe, unrelenting headache.
Recurrent sellar mass after resection of pituitary macroadenoma
A Puerto Rican woman aged 50 years presented to an ophthalmologist with complaints of vision changes, including difficulty seeing images in her peripheral vision in both eyes and difficulty in color perception.
Riedel’s thyroiditis and F18-FDG-PET scan
A 45-year-old woman presented to the ED for worsening dysphagia and right lower anterior neck pain with increasing dyspnea on exertion. She had no prior history of thyroid disease or autoimmune disease and reported no prior head and neck radiation.