Endocrine Abstracts

INTRODUCTION: The usefulness of suppressing true precocious puberty (TPP) in order to improve the final height is still under discussion and may depend on early diagnosis and timely treatment. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effects of the treatment on uterine and ovarian morphology before and after two years of therapy.METHODS: U/S was performed on 15 girls with TPP whose mean age was 6.92plus/minus SD1.09 years at the time of diagnosis. Al...

INTRODUCTIONTwelve prepubertal children (7 boys and 5 girls) who had been continuously using I.C.S. for at least 3 to 5 years in a prescribed dose of at least 500-800 micrograms per day were included in the study. Age ranged from 4 to 11 years. Duration of I.C.S. treatment ranged from 3 to 5 years. 20 children of the same population were used as controls. Bone mineral density (B.M.D.) of the lumbar spine (L2-L4) was measured by Dual Energy X-ray Absorpti...

Aim: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the diagnostic significance of presurgical thyroid ultrasound in comparison with FNAC of thyroid nodules and their contribution in detecting thyroid cancer.Patients and methods: We retrospectively studied the files of 118 thyroid cancer patients, 18 men (15.2%) and 100 women (84.8%), who underwent thyroidectomy from January 2013 until December 2016, in the Department of Surgical Oncology of Theagen...