Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Recent studies suggest that some patients initially diagnosed with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH), may evolve towards a combined pituitary hormonal deficiency (CPHD). Heterozygous pathogenic CHD7 variants impair neural cell crest guidance causing CHARGE syndrome and have been associated with abnormal pituitary development/function/structure and isolated CHARGE features, including HH. We aimed to genotype CHD7 and phenotype thoroughly those adult p...

Introduction and objective: Prophylactic central lymph node dissection (CLND) in patients with suspected papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) without evident lymph node metastasis (LNM), remains debatable. We propose to evaluate whether BRAF V600E mutation presence, could help to identify patients at risk for LMN.Methods: Retrospective study of patients with diagnosis of PTC, who underwent total thyroidectomy during 2002 and 2013 (n: 256) in our hospi...