Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In the modern day busy clinical practice the communication between patient and care giver is at minimal level. The patients feel apprehensive when advised about the surgical intervention. In such situation they feel the need of detail information from the care givers.Story telling is a tool which can be used for this problem. We intended to study the efficacy of storytelling technique on patients undergoing Hemithyroidectomy for benign cytology.<p class="abst...

Case presentation: 73-year-old diabetic, hypertensive and alcoholic Male on treatment for type II diabetes for 25 years, underwent amputation of left great toe and second toe previously had sudden painless swelling of the left foot after a walk. He was diagnosed to have Charcot’s foot and had the appearance of bag of bones in CT scan. He was managed conservatively with immobilization and Custom made shoes.Discussion: Charcot foot is a sudden soften...

Introduction: At present patients and relatives garner more knowledge through website rather than direct interaction with the Consultant physician. We aimed at assessing whether Indian website about Endocrine Surgery matched with their counterpart abroad.Materials and methods: We identified two most searched Endocrine Surgery website world wide and 10 endocrine surgerywebsite maintained by trained Endocrine Surgeons (three years training leading to award...

Background: Adreno cortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignancy associated with aggressive biological behavior and poor outcome. The reported incidence in literature is about approximately two cases per million population’s.These tumors might be functional or non-functional depending on their ability to secrete various adrenocortical hormones. ACC occurring in children and adults show distinct characteristics and there is not much literature regarding the differences. Si...

Introduction: Primary Hyperparathyroidism usually presents as bone disease, renal or with Gastro Intestinal Symptoms. Dental Symptoms as primary or presenting manifestations are rare. We report two patients who presented with edentulous jaw in young age, which resulted in investigations leading to the diagnosis for primary hyperparathyroidism.Material and methods: We report two patients operated in a tertiary referral Centre from Jan 2017–Dec 2017 f...

Introduction: Thyroid surgery was initially considered as “horrid butchery” due to associated high morbidity and mortality, however with the advent of safe surgical techniques and improved understanding of thyroid physiology, thyroid surgery has become safer. Still there are certain intra-operative factors, as described in Difficulty Thyroidectomy Scale (DTS)which are thought to be associated with adverse outcome. However anatomical parameters also need to be address...