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Endocrine Abstracts (2018) 56 P1201 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.56.P1201

ECE2018 Poster Presentations: Thyroid Thyroid cancer (88 abstracts)

Serum TSH levels as a predictor of thyroid cancer

Sophia Novosad 1 & Narine Martirosyan 2


1Clinica of Administration of the President of the RF, Moscow, Russian Federation; 2Sechenov Universsity, Moscow, Russian Federation.


Background: The aim of our study is to show the evaluate relationship between cytological feature of thyroid nodule and TSH level.

Objective: To retrospectively evaluate the usefulness of serum TSH levels as a predictor of thyroid cancer.

Methods: Patients with thyroid nodule(s) who underwent fine-needle aspiration biopsy under ultrasonographic guidance in a Clinica of Administration of the President of the RF were consecutively evaluated.

Results: Eighty patients underwent thyroidectomy and the final diagnoses were malignant in 32(40%) patients, 15 (19%) nodules was follicular adenoma, 33 (41%) was benign nodules. TSH level was significantly higher in patient with thyroid cancer compare with follicular adenoma and other benign nodules\. 30% patients with thyroid cancer had TSH>2.5 μU/ml and only 18% with follicular adenoma, 12% with other benign nodules had TSH level >2.5 μU/ml.

Conclusions: Our study showed that patients with thyroid cancer had significantly higher TSH. TSH level is an independent predictor for thyroid malignancy.

Volume 56

20th European Congress of Endocrinology

Barcelona, Spain
19 May 2018 - 22 May 2018

European Society of Endocrinology 

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