Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Locoregional nodal metastases are the first step of tumor spread in MTC and have been shown to be a prognostic factor for survival. Neither palpation nor neck ultrasound can estimate nodal staging accurately.Aim: To identify predictive factors for LNI in MTC through a retrospective study on 142 consecutive patients operated in Lille University Hospital between 1995 and 2010.Methods: Analyses were carried on 54 patients ...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common malignancy originating from the thyroid gland. Although occurring predominantly as a sporadic disease, it may be associated with rare inherited circumstances such as familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) FAP is an autosomal dominantly inherited cancer predisposition syndrome characterized by the progressive development of colorectal carcinoma. Most of available data report accompanying thyroid carcinoma in no more than 1&#150...