Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid cancer is the most frequent malignant endocrine neoplasia. Its incidence has significantly risen worldwide in the last decades.Objective: To estimate the incidence of thyroid cancer in Valladolid’s east area population, Spain, over the period 2002–2016.Methods: A retrospective descriptive research was performed in the Clinical Universitary Hospital of Valladolid (HCUVa). Clinical data was obtained fr...

Introduction: The most common pituitary adenoma is a prolactinoma.The most relevant clinical manifestations are amenorrhoea galactorrhoea infertility gonadal and sexual dysfunction. Macroprolactinoma are more often in men because they had more difficulty for asking the sintomatology. Initial treatment of macroadenoma wasinitiated with a dopamine agonist with control of PRL concentration and size of tumorClinical case: A 52-year-old manpresented ...

Thyrotoxicosis is an uncommon cause of congestive heart failure with depressed ejection fraction. However, when it presented in patients without classical cardiovascular risk factors and high heart rate, that not response to usual therapy, other conditions should be considered.Case report: A 36-year-old male was admitted to our hospital’s Coronary Critical Care Unit in acute hypertensive pulmonary oedema. He had noted weight loss, palpitations, shor...

Background: Measurement of thyroglobulin (Tg) in the washout fluid of fine-needle aspirates (FNA-Tg) is useful for diagnosis of Cevical lymph node (CLN) metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between FNA-Tg levels and Sonographic findings in CLN in patients with PTC.Methods: Since January 2017 until December 2018, an ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration ...