Endocrine Abstracts

NAFLD has become the most common cause of chronic liver disease in obese children.Two years-one month-old boy admitted to clinic for obesity. Parents were first cousin. Weight was 20 kg (>90p), height was 84 cm (50 p), BMI was 28.34 kg/m2 (>97 p). Physical examination was normal except diffuse hypertrichosis and right kriptoorchidism. On the follow-up, he never lost weight. At 4-years-old, FPG was 112 mg/dl, AST was 67 IU, ALT was 72 I...

Introduction: Thyroid papillary cancer is a solid organ malignancy that can be cured mostly by surgical and radioactive iodine(RAI) therapy. Metastatic disease state and radioactive iodine resistance have led to new treatment searches. In recent years, sorafenib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has been used as a first-line treatment in thyroid papillary cancers that cannot be cured by surgery or radioactive iodine treatment. In addition, the use of thermal ablation and transarte...