Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The discovery of incidental thyroid carcinomas (ITC) in patients undergoing surgery for a benign disease range between 3 and 16% of cases. During years, patients with hyperthyroidism were considered protected by TSH suppression (TSH is well known factor that favors the development of thyroid cancer). Thyroid size might be a predictive factor due to the excess of thyroid tissue prone to mutations. The knowledge of determining factors foretelling the presence of un...

Incidental thyroid carcinoma includes thyroid carcinomas detected after surgery in patients whose thyroid has been correctly studied with no data of malignancy. Lately, the widely spread use of image techniques and thorough search of thyroid nodule complains, have lead to a growing number of thyroid carcinomas. But still there are some of these incidentally discovered after thyroidectomy.We report 98 cases of thyroid carcinomas incidentally found from a ...

sTg is universally accepted as the best marker of disease status in DTC. Its presurgical serum level may suggest the presence of distant metastasis in case of very high level, but the correlation between its level and the characteristics of the tumour is yet to be defined.Objective: To evaluate preoperative thyroglobulin as predictor of DCT features.Methods: Preoperative sTg was measured in patients operated for DTC between 2011&#1...