Endocrine Abstracts

Fine needle aspiration biopsy is the cornerstone for cytologic evaluation of thyroid nodules. Thyroid nodule prevelance increases with age, however there is no cytologic study exclusively from geriatric patients.We examined the thyroid fine needle biopsy records taken from patients age 65 years or older between January 2006 and June 2009 at Dokuz Eylul University Hospital; and reviewed the cytological results of this group.We analy...

Aim: Thyroid nodules are frequent in the adult population. Thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy is the first choice for diagnosing cancer in the nodule. It is suggested that biopsy-proven benign thyroid nodules should be followed up clinically and if they grow, re-biopsy should be performed. However, certain growth criteria have not been defined yet.Method: We retrospectively reviewed thyroid fine needle aspiration records of all patients seen in our cl...

Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare anomaly characterized with the absence of one thyroid lobe due to a failure in embryologic development of the thyroid gland. This anomaly is more frequent in women. It usually affects left side of the thyroid. Isthmus may be detected in half of the cases. Thyroid hemiagenesis is usually diagnosed after thyroid imaging due to other disorders, which might be related or unrelated to the thyroid gland. In this paper, we report clinical features of tw...