Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction, material and methods: Differentiated thyroid cancer is a pretty common reason for consulting in our specialty. In general terms, the prognosis is good in the main histological type but there are many others that can worsen the prognosis. It can determine the kind of surgery from hemithyroidectomy (e.g. microcarcinoma) to no intervention because of its extension at the moment of diagnosis. We have collected the data of our patients with differentiated thyroid canc...

Introduction, material and methods: The BRAF isoform of RAF has been implicated in the pathogenesis of papillary thyroid cancer, but not of benign or follicular neoplasms. Also, BRAF mutations may confer a worse clinical prognosis than for papillary thyroid cancer without the BRAF mutation. Recurrence occurs more frequently when BRAF mutations are present. In addition, BRAF mutations are associated with extrathyroidal invasion, lymph node me...