Endocrine Abstracts

Background – objective: Medullary thyroid carcinoma and hyperparathyroidism coexistence is well described in the literature. On the other hand, data regarding the coexistence of non-medullary thyroid cancer and hyperparathyroidism are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of such coexistence.Methods: This is a retrospective study of all patients with primary or secondary hyperparathyroidism who underwent parathyroidectomy in o...

Objective: To identify incidental parathyroidectomy predictors in thyroid surgery.Methods: All thyroid operations during 4 years were reviewed (n=1010). Patients were divided in those with (parathyroidectomy group) and without incidental parathyroidectomy (no-parathyroidectomy group).Results: Incidental parathyroidectomy occurred in 198 patients (19.6%). The groups were comparable in age, thyroid weight and pathology, hypert...

Background-objective: Although the harmonic scalpel has been shown to be safe and effective in thyroid surgery, several surgeons consider the previously available instruments to be large and cumbersome, especially in terms of dissection capabilities. To this context, an innovative technical improvement of the device for thyroid surgery has very recently been implemented and has been made available in 2008. Utilization of this new device, however, has not been evaluated in any ...

Background: Hemangiomas of the thyroid gland are extremely rare.Case presentation: We report a case of a 78-year-old euthyroid male patient with a primary cavernous hemangioma of the thyroid gland. The patient presented for evaluation of a symptomatic, slowly growing neck mass. He did not have any previous medical history and, moreover, had no history of trauma, FNA or other neck procedures. Ultrasound scan revealed a multinodular goiter and a hypoechoic...