Endocrine Abstracts

TSH level has been proposed as a thyroid malignancy predictor in nodular thyroid disease. In addition, several clinical studies have reported that higher preoperative serum TSH levels were associated with more advanced stages of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) at the time of diagnosis.Methods: We collected retrospectively preoperative serum TSH from patients diagnosed of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) who had undergone total thyroidectomy during the ...

Introduction: Although it has been suggested that there is a strong association between acromegaly and premalignant colonic lesions and colon cancer, it seems that in real – life practice the adherence to ACRO colonoscopy guidelines might be lower than expected (as recently shown by M.Parolin et cols).Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the case records of the 54 patients with acromegaly seen in our center since 1994.We analyzed the findings of 27 ...