Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine different types of thyroid nodules according to their elasticity and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of strain elastography in detection of thyroid cancer. 114 thyroid nodules in 84 patients were examined prospectively with conventional B-mode US, color Doppler, strain elastography (SE) and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB). 72 nodules in 50 patients were submitted to surgery and histologically assessed. For final diagno...

We report three generations of a family with MEN-2 A characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance and virtually 100% penetrance.The proband, 35-year-old man, was diagnosed and operated for pheochromocytoma of the right adrenal gland and medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) with lymph node metastasis in 2009. His mother turned out to be operated for bilateral pheochromocytoma at the age of 47 (in 1994) and had had a thyroid nodule. She died at the age of ...