Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To identify incidental parathyroidectomy predictors in thyroid surgery.Methods: All thyroid operations during 4 years were reviewed (n=1010). Patients were divided in those with (parathyroidectomy group) and without incidental parathyroidectomy (no-parathyroidectomy group).Results: Incidental parathyroidectomy occurred in 198 patients (19.6%). The groups were comparable in age, thyroid weight and pathology, hypert...

Background-objective: Although the harmonic scalpel has been shown to be safe and effective in thyroid surgery, several surgeons consider the previously available instruments to be large and cumbersome, especially in terms of dissection capabilities. To this context, an innovative technical improvement of the device for thyroid surgery has very recently been implemented and has been made available in 2008. Utilization of this new device, however, has not been evaluated in any ...

Background: Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are rather uncommon while they have an incidence of no more than 0,5 per 100.000 people. The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of second neoplasms among patients diagnosed with sporadic NENs.Methods: Clinical and histological data from patients followed to our NENs clinic between 2020-2023 were retrospectively evaluated. Patients with a known genetic syndrome were excluded from the analysis.</p...