Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Available clinical literature raises the possibility that stress-responsive mechanisms differ by gender, especially in older individuals; however the accompanying evidence is both limited and discrepant. We hypothesize that gender determines the degree of ACTH inhibition by and recovery after an experimental cortisol clamp in older subjects.Subjects and design: We conducted a prospectively randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross...

Introduction: Childhood papillary thyroid carcinoma (CPTC), despite bilateral thyroidectomy (BT), nodal resection and radioiodine remnant ablation (RRA), recurs within neck nodal metastases (NNM) in >30% within 20 postoperative years. However, these NNM are usually treated with re-operation or further radioiodine; US-guided ethanol ablation (EA) may be considered (j.sempedsurg.2020.150920) for patients with limited numbers of NNMMethods: We studied l...