Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) is a common endocrine disorder diagnosed biochemically, common use of autoanalyzers increased the incidence of PHP throughout last decades. Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy has been preferred to the explorative surgical approach due to shorter operating time, lower complication rate, and smaller incision size. Thus localization studies have become very important. We aimed to investigate clinical and laboratory characteristics of...

Background: Radioiodine(RAI) has been used to treat hyperthyroidism for more than seven decades. Effects of RAI treatment on thyroid function tests(TFT), risk of hypothyroidism, gland and autonomous nodule volumes and on ultrasonographic features in toxic adenoma (TA) and toxic multinodular goitre TMNG patients, have been previously studied by ourselves and other. However, studies evaluating ultrasonographic changes in thyroid and toxic nodule volumes usually have a follow-up ...

Background: Although the survival rate of papillary thyroid cancer is over 95%, the diagnosis of ’cancer’ and fear of recurrence may impair the quality of life of patients. There is no specific scale for patients with thyroid cancer, scales that can be used in the course of all chronic diseases and include the concept of general health are used to evaluate the quality of life in these patients. We aimed to evaluate the validity of the Thyroid Specific Quality of Life...