Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary apoplexy results from haemorrhagic infarction of a pre-existing pituitary adenoma or within physiologically enlarged gland. Pituitary apoplexy during pregnancy is rare but serious event with significant morbidity and mortality if not recognised in time. Pituitary apoplexy is characterised by sudden onset of headache, nausea, vomiting, visual disturbances, eye movements restricted and varying degrees of pituitary insufficiency and accompanied by change o...

Objective: Thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is the golden standard for approaching thyroid nodule’s malignancy. It is recommended to carry out an FNAB from the dominant nodule in multi nodular goiter. In our study, we compared the FNAB results that we carried out from dominant nodule and any other nodule which have features that may be malignant to US. Besides, the relationship between the results of cytology and US features of nodules has been analyzed.<p...