Familial Acromegaly and Bilateral Asynchronous Pheochromocytomas in a Female Patient With a Mutation: A Case Report.

Background: There are very few cases of co-occurring pituitary adenoma (PA) and pheochromocytomas (PCC)/paragangliomas caused by mutations. No cases of familial PA in patients with mutations have been described to date.

Case Presentation: We describe a 38-year-old female patient, presenting with clinical and biochemical features of acromegaly and PCC of the left adrenal gland.

[Cushing's syndrome due to bilateral oncocytic adrenal tumor].

Cushing’s syndrome accounts for approximately 20–30% of endogenous hypercortisolism cases, and adrenal involvement can be either unilateral or bilateral. Cushing’s syndrome due to bilateral adrenal tumors is extremely rare. Adrenal oncocytomas are another rare cause of endogenous hypercortisolism: about 13 cases are described in the literature.

Non-lethal Raine Syndrome in a Middle-Aged Woman Caused by a Novel FAM20C Mutation.

Raine syndrome is a rare hereditary disease caused by mutations in the FAM20C gene. Only 18 non-lethal cases have been reported, the majority of them being children and young adults aged up to 30. Due to the rarity of the disease, genotype-phenotype correlations are not available and patient life expectancy is unknown, thus making descriptions of each novel case of particular importance.

Value of two-phase dynamic multidetector computed tomography in differential diagnosis of post-inflammatory strictures from esophageal cancer.

Aim: To characterize the computed tomography (CT) findings in patients with post-inflammatory esophageal strictures (corrosive and peptic) and reveal the optimal scanning phase protocols for distinguishing post-inflammatory esophageal stricture and esophageal cancer.

Methods: Sixty-five patients with esophageal strictures of different etiology were included in this study: 24 patients with 27 histopathologically confirmed corrosive strictures, 10 patients with 12 peptic strictures and 31 patients with esophageal cancer were evaluated with a two-phase dynamic contrast-enhanced MDCT. Arterial and venous phases at 10 and 35 s after the attenuation of 200 HU were obtained at the descending aorta, with a delayed phase at 6-8 min after the start of injection of contrast media.