Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid lymphoma accounts for less than 5% of thyroid malignancies. The aim of this study was to analyze the particularities of 9 patients (7 females and 2 males, aged 42 to 76 years) diagnosed with thyroid lymphoma, representing 2.45% of 340 cases of thyroid malignancies. Patients were assessed by ultrasound examination (7 cases), fine needle biopsy (FNB) (8 cases), lymph node biopsy (2 cases), and histological examination after surgery (7 cases). Clinically, 6 cases presente...

Until 2002 less than 200 cases of primary hyperparathyroidism identified during pregnancy were reported. We present a case of primary hyperparathyroidism discovered during pregnancy in a 28-year-old woman. The disease was suspected due to a hypercalcemia discovered during a routine blood assessment during pregnancy (calcium=11 mg/dl, phosphorus=2.4 mg/dl). The patient was investigated in the Clinic of Endocrinology and the diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism was made on b...

The critical problem of thyroid nodules is to identify the malignant ones Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) plays a crucial role in this diagnosis and enables the number of surgical operations to be reduced. We have evaluated the performances of FNAB in comparison with the histological examination in 1971 consecutive patients who suffered both fine-needle puncture and surgery in a 5 years interval at a University Hospital. FNAB was malignant or suspicious in 8.4% patients, ...