Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: The prevalence of diabetic patients admitted in hospitals close to 20% in some series. Our goal is to determine the prevalence of diabetic patients assessed by interclinical calls from different medical and surgical specialties that have been entered during 2015 in our Hospital, in order to describe the characteristics that these diabetic patients.Material and methods: We present 116 patients evaluated by interclinical consultation request fo...

Introducción: Thyroid nodule is a very frequent pathology that affects 4-8% of population. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) guided by ultrasound (US) is considered the gold standard test in diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules. This technique is being assumed more and more frequently by endocrinologists.Description of Methods: We conducted a retrospective study that included all thyroid US-guided FNA performed in 2014. We considered the following va...