Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To study thyroid microcarcinomas in surgical samples obtained by thyroidectomy.Material and methods: We studied 311 patients thyroidectomized for different thyroid diseases in 2007, histology being made in the Institute of Pathology Tg.Mures.Results: Surgery was made for uni- and multinodular goiter in 278, for Graves-disease in 28, and for other forms of hyperthyro-i-dism in 5 cases. Thyroid cancer was diagnosed in 65 c...

Our objective was to investigate the expression of Ki-67, RET and p53 in papillary thyroid micro–carcinomas (PTMCs) with or without autoimmune thyroid diseases. We included in the study 36 patients thyroidectomized between 2002 2007 for benign or malignant thyroid lesions, registered at Endocrinology Clinic and/or Institute of Pathology Targu Mureş, at whom the histology diagnosed PTMC. This cohort was divided into two groups: 19 PTMCs only and 17 PTMCs associated wi...