AACE clinical case reports

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The frequency of hematospermia in transgender women is unknown. This report aimed to describe the development of hematospermia in a transgender woman. CASE REPORT: A 35-year-old transgender woman treated with estradio…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: To report a case of adenomyosis in a woman with hyperprolactinemia which resolved after initiation of dopamine agonist therapy. CASE REPORT: A 35-year-old woman with a history of Graves' disease was referred for evalu…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Follicular thyroid cancer without an intrathyroidal primary cancer is rare. We present a patient with multifocal pulmonary metastatic follicular thyroid cancer without apparent cancer within her thyroid. CASE REPORT: …

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Pulmonary carcinoid tumors are a rare cause of Cushing's syndrome and usually present with an indolent course. Here, we present a case of rapid onset and severe Cushing's syndrome due to a typical pulmonary carcinoid t…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor antibody (TRAb) is well recognized as the pathogenic antibody that causes the clinical manifestation of Graves' disease (GD). Although the majority of TRAb measured in GD is d…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Epithelial cell ovarian carcinomas rarely secrete steroid hormones, while sex cord and stromal cell ovarian carcinomas often do so. The objective of this report is to describe a patient with endometrioid ovarian carcin…

OBJECTIVE: Malignant struma ovarii (SO) is a rare condition. Although there have been a few reported cases of malignant SO with coexisting Graves' disease (GD), the exact incidence of metastasis in these cases is not known. We report a rare…

OBJECTIVE: To report a patient with the hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome (HPT-JT) who was found to have a rare ovarian tumor (granulosa cell tumor [GCT]). HPT-JT is caused by pathogenic variants in the CDC73 gene and results in primar…