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Endocrine Diseases
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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

 

From http://factsofcancer.blogspot.com/2009/08/endocrine-disease.html

 
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