Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The presence of a single parathyroid adenoma is a cause of primary hyperparathyroidism in most cases. Minimally invasive parathyreoidectomy is a treatment of choice in PHPT patients and precise localization of the changed parathyroids is crucial for successful removal.The aim of the study was to assess usefulness of parathormone level estimation in the material obtained during FNAB of the focal neck lesions in order to differentiate structures...

Considering, the pivotal role of DC in formation and development of autoimmunological processes, the investigation of influence of of thyrometabolic status on maturation and function of subtypes of human peripheral blood DC, seems to be reasonable and of particular interest. THE AIM of the present study was a complex analysis of the dendritic cell subsets and fenotypes in patients with chronic thyroiditis (ChT) as well as the patients monitored for differentiated thyroid cance...

Objective: Aiming at the highest specifity in differentiating benign from malignant thyroid nodules effects in new diagnostics developments. Recent technologies such as elastography enable determination of tissue stiffness difference between focal lesions and surrounding thyroid tissue – reference tissue. This method is based on quantifying the stiffness of the lesion – the malignant changes show decreased elasticity when compared to adjacent tissue. Tissue Doppler u...