Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Occurrence of follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is limited almost within thyroid gland, but distant metastasis is discovered uncommonly as first presentation. We experienced a rare case about recurrent bone metastasis of FTC with unknown primary site.Case report: A 58-year-old woman complained about back pain for 3 years. A 5 cm sized mass in right 8th posterior rib was discovered and performed resection. The result of pathology was bone m...

Current guidelines on cardiovascular (CV) disease prevention recommend targeted management after assessment of CV risks using many of available method even if the patient is asymptomatic. This study was performed to explore how CV high-risk is differently detected between two distinct methods: non-invasive test (NIT) and risk calculation and how the awareness of CV high-risk impacts physician and patient behavior for risk management in diabetes patient.A...