Functioning adrenocortical oncocytomas are extremely rare and most reported patients are 40-60 yr of age. To our knowledge, only 2 cases of functioning adrenocortical oncocytomas have been reported in childhood. We report a case of functioning adrenocortical oncocytoma in a 14-yr-old female child presenting with virilization. She presented with deepening of the voice and excessive hair growth, ...

Adrenal oncocytomas are usually non functional and hence incidentally detected. Most of these adrenal neoplasms are benign. Functioning adrenocortical oncocytomas are extremely rare and most reported patients are between 40 and 60 years of age. We found in the literature that only several cases of functioning adrenocortical oncocytomas have been reported in childhood. We report a case of functi...

A 32-year-old woman who had been diabetic for 24 years presented with frequent, oligosymptomatic episodes of hypoglycaemia. Investigations showed that she had attenuated adrenocortical and pancreatic A-cell response to hypoglycaemia. Her plasma ACTH response to hypoglycaemia was also impaired but there was normal adrenocortical response to the injection of synthetic ACTH. Plasma glucagon respon...

Note Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare malignant neoplasm of adrenal glands, which most often presents without any hormonal symptoms. The most common clinical presentation of patients with hormone-secreting adrenocortical carcinoma is that of Cushing’s syndrome. Other hormonal hypersecretion syndromes associated with adrenocortical carcinoma include virilization (from androgen-producing tumors...

Ketoconazole, a potent antifungal agent, inhibits adrenal steroidogenesis in normal subjects during short term treatment. Since this drug is used in the long term prophylaxis of fungal infections in patients with haematological malignancies, we have investigated whether such patients have evidence of adrenocortical suppression. Six patients on long term prophylaxis with ketoconazole were given ...

Visual perception disorder detection may be challenging with several dozen different syndromes identifiable. These may range from hypofunction to hyperfunction in the topological as well as hodological dimensions of cerebral structure. We report here a case of a 61-year-old white man presented with dizziness and visual impairment.

In this short note we improve a recent dimension formula of Takeuchi for the dimension of the hyperfunction solutions of some holonomic Dmodules. Besides the constructibility result and the local index formula of Kashiwara for the holomorphic solution complex, we only use a vanishing theorem of Lebeau together with a simple calculation in terms of constructible functions. 2000 Mathematics Subje...

A recent ground-breaking publication described hypothalamus-driven programmatic aging. As a Russian proverb goes "everything new is well-forgotten old". In 1958, Dilman proposed that aging and its related diseases are programmed by the hypothalamus. This theory, supported by beautiful experiments, remained unnoticed just to be re-discovered recently. Yet, it does not explain all manifestations ...

SUMMARY A 2/12 Year-old boy with IsoSexual Pseudoprecocious puberty due to a Virilizing Adrenocortical adenoma is presentecl, who was crronously treated as CAH for 9 months. Prevalence, clinical presentation, diagnosis and differential diagnosis of these tumors are discussed briefly.