Cushing's & Cancer: Endocrine Disease

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Among the hundreds of endocrine diseases (or endocrinological diseases) are:

Adrenal disorders:
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Addison's disease
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (adrenogenital syndrome)
- Mineralocorticoid deficiency
- Conn's syndrome
- Cushing's syndrome
- adrenogenital syndrome
- Pheochromocytoma
- Adrenocortical carcinoma
- GRA/Glucocorticoid remediable aldosteronism
- Glucose homeostasis disorders:
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hypoglycemia
- Idiopathic hypoglycemia
- Insulinoma

Metabolic bone disease:
- Osteoporosis
- Osteitis deformans (Paget's disease of bone)
- Rickets and osteomalacia

Pituitary gland disorders:
- Diabetes insipidus
- Hypopituitarism (or Panhypopituitarism)
- Pituitary tumors
- Pituitary adenomas
- Prolactinoma (or Hyperprolactinemia)
- Acromegaly, gigantism
- Cushing's disease

Parathyroid gland disorders:
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- Secondary hyperparathyroidism
- Tertiary hyperparathyroidism
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Pseudohypoparathyroidism

Sex hormone disorders:
- Disorders of sex development or intersex disorders
- Hermaphroditism
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Androgen insensitivity syndromes
- Hypogonadism
- Gonadotropin deficiency
- Kallmann syndrome
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Ovarian failure
- Testicular failure
- Turner syndrome
- Disorders of Gender
- Gender identity disorder
- Disorders of Puberty
- Delayed puberty
- Precocious puberty
- Menstrual function or fertility disorders
- Amenorrhea
- Polycystic ovary syndrome

Thyroid disorders:
- Goiter
- Hyperthyroidism and Graves-Basedow disease
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroiditis
- Thyroid cancer
- Tumours of the endocrine glands not mentioned elsewhere
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia
- MEN type 1
- MEN type 2a
- MEN type 2b
- See also separate organs
- Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes
- Incidentaloma - an unexpected finding on diagnostic imaging, often of endocrine glands