Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The association between medullary (MTC) and differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC, with the most frequent form of papillary thyroid carcinoma, PTC) is rare and can be observed in two main settings: a collision tumor (that is, a tumor with two separate and different components) or a mixed tumor showing dual differentiation.Case report: A 58-year-old woman, affected by euthyroid multinodular goiter came to our observation for a second opinion re...

Background: Medical treatment of pituitary adenomas with somatostatin analogs depends on tumor type and somatostatin receptor expression. Using polyclonal antibodies, their immunohistochemical (IHC) detection gave conflicting results. Therefore, we studied the IHC expression of SSTR2A and SSTR5 using two specific MABs in five types of pituitary adenomas.Methods: SSTR2A and SSTR5 expression was studied using two...

Our objective was to investigate the expression of Ki-67, RET and p53 in papillary thyroid micro–carcinomas (PTMCs) with or without autoimmune thyroid diseases. We included in the study 36 patients thyroidectomized between 2002 2007 for benign or malignant thyroid lesions, registered at Endocrinology Clinic and/or Institute of Pathology Targu Mureş, at whom the histology diagnosed PTMC. This cohort was divided into two groups: 19 PTMCs only and 17 PTMCs associated wi...