Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To study the relationship between hyperprolactinemia and various forms of breast cancer in women of fertile age.Methods and materials: The study included 100 breast cancer patients, aged 25 to 43 years (mean age 34.5 ± 1.4 years). The patients were divided into 2 groups: Group I 33 patients with hyperprolactinemia, which corresponded to 33%. Group II 67 patients with breast cancer without hyperprolactinemia, which corresponded to 67%. Clin...

Objective: Evaluate effect of hyperprolactinemia on breast’s conditions.Methods: Investigated 2 groups of patients with average age 34.9±7.5. The first group is 30 women with hyperprolactinemia. Inclusion criterion was an increase in prolactin level above 1000 mU/l with a double determination, as well as duration of at least 6 month, lack of taking antidepressants and oral contraceptives for last 3 month before the start of study, absence of co...

Aim: To study the course of clinical symptoms in women with prolactinomas.Material and research methods: The study included the results of clinical examination and treatment of 73 patients with prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas. In the main group, 84.9% (62 women) and 15.1% (11 men) aged from 17 to 74 years old, the average age was (38.5±12.6 years). All patients were divided into 2 groups depending on the size of the education. Group I consist...

Aim: The work was initiated to study prolactin levels in hormonally inactive pituitary adenoma by the size of the tumor.Material and methods: We examined 85 patients with hormonally inactive pituitary adenomas, 45 women and 40 men among them aged from 18 to 50 years (mean age 44.5±3.85 years). The disease duration from the onset to diagnosis based on the medical history and MRI ranged from 1 to 15 years.Results and discussion:...

Purpose: To assess the sensitivity and specificity of the cytomorphological method in the diagnosis of the nosological variant of nodal goiter.Materials and methods: A comparison of the results of cytological and histological studies of thyroid nodules in 36 patients (15 women and 11 men, average age 54.2±9 years), operated for nodular goiter. Cytological findings were divided into 4 categories: ‘non-informative material’, ‘benign les...