Endocrine Abstracts

Hypokalemic periodic paralysis is an uncommon complication of thyrotoxicosis especially in Caucasian women. It is most frequent in east asian and Japanese males and is characterized by recurrent episodes of motor weekness of variable intensity associated with hyperthyroidism. It is usually associated with low plasma potassium levels and is often precipitated by physical activity. This condition is a self limiting disorder that is cured by the treatment of the underlying hypert...

Introduction: The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRT) allows the correlation between six individual diagnostic categories with the risk of malignancy, and offers a standardized management algorithm for each category. Atypia of undetermined significance (AUS) and follicular neoplasm categories are considered indeterminate categories, with varying malignancy rates and subtypes.Aim: To establish the malignancy rate and subtype of can...