Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The improvement in imaging techniques has increased the number of incidentally discovered adrenal lesions. Current clinical recommendations are based on the NIH consensus statement (2002) and include: CT at 6,12 and 24 months plus annual hormone evaluation for 4 years.The aim of this study was to describe the results of the application of the current guidelines in a cohort of consecutive patients whose initial diagnosis was non-functioning ...

Introduction: Waist circumference is a validated tool to measure obesity-associated cardiovascular risk factor. However it does not differentiate between superficial and visceral abdominal fat. Ultrasonography has many advantages over TC/DEXA in abdominal fat assessment, specially imaging pre-peritoneal, omental and retroperitoneal fat. Our aims were to validate the diagnostic technique and to observe correlations between different abdominal fat layers with clinical and analyt...