Endocrine Abstracts

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...