Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Reoperation due to recurrent or persistent thyroid cancer (TC) poses a real challenge to a surgeon who must properly estimate the benefit risk-ratio. Radioguided occult lesion localization (ROLL) technique may facilitate the localization and sufficient and safe removal of nonpalpable TC relapse.Aim: To analyze the efficacy of the ROLL technique in reoperation of TC relapse.Material and methods: A retrospective study o...

Aim: The assessment of the disease course and selected clinicopathological factors associated with recurrence risk and the effectiveness of surgical treatment of PTC patients.Material and Methods: The retrospective analysis of 260 PTC patients selected from 403 patients operated on for recurrent thyroid cancer between 2002 and 2018 was performed. All statistical analyses were done using the programming environment R (v. 4.0.2).Resu...

Background: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) in children is a rare cancer, occurring in 1/100,000 children/year. In the adults a steady increase in the incidence and change in presentation of DTC has been observed over the past 30 years.Purpose: Evaluation of changes in the clinical presentation of paediatric DTC on the example of children treated in Institute of Oncology in Gliwice between 1970 and 2015.Material and methods:...