Endocrine Abstracts

IntroductionParathyroid carcinoma (PC) occurs in 0.5–5% of cases among patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). The prognosis for patients with PC is variable and depends on the presence of local or distant metastases and the completeness of the initial surgery. About 50% of patients become recurrence of the disease and require palliative surgery and/or drug therapy aimed at correcting severe hypercalcemia.Objective</...

Introduction.: Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is the one of the rarest endocrine malignances and occurs in 0.5–5% of cases among patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). Diagnosis of PC can be challenging and often made after surgery or while local or distant metastases detection. We present a case of a patient with a large intrathyroid PC, which was initially identified as a malignant thyroid nodule.Case report.: 59-old caucasian women was dia...

Introduction: Recently, the incidence of thyroid carcinoma (TC) has been increasing rapidly worldwide and caused with significant increase in detection of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMC), especially among young women. Most authors associate the high incidence of microcarcinomas with improved quality of diagnosis and medical supervision of population. The clinical course of microcarcinomas can be different, which gives rise to many controversies regarding their diagnos...