Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Angiogenesis plays an important role in the growth and processes of tumors, often indicating neovascularity. However the role of vascularization in thyroid nodules observed with power or color doppler has always been debated. Therefore, most of thyroid nodules sonographic risk classification do not consider vascularization as an important features in predicting the risk of malignancy. In the last years a new vascular imaging technique, Superb Microvascular Imagin...

Objective: Recent studies have shown that sarcopenia at cancer diagnosis is associated with a poor survival in patients with solid tumors. Up to now, few data are available among patients with advanced thyroid cancer, especially those treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). We retrospectively evaluated sarcopenia by Skeletal Muscle Index (SMI) in a cohort of advanced thyroid cancer patients before and during TKI treatment and investigated its association with treatment ...

Introduction and Objective: The initial assessment of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients is based on the American Thyroid Association (ATA) risk stratification criteria. Dynamic risk stratification (DRS) of DTC patients takes into consideration the response to initial treatment being reassessed at 1–2 years and revealed significant shifts in the risk categories of DTC patients. We aimed to evaluate the long-term outcome of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients...

Objectives: Gender has long been recognized as a significant epidemiological variable in the study of thyroid diseases. However, the modern approach of gender medicine introduces new perspectives to this field. The aim of this study was to investigate how gender influences the clinical presentation, volume changes and cytological features of benign thyroid nodules during follow-upMethods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 1010 patients (17.1% male...

Objectives: AJCC/TNM staging system provides an estimate of mortality risk in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients and recent evidence showed that ATA risk stratification may improve the definition of this risk. We speculated that the integration of the response to the initial therapy (RIT) could better define the mortality risk.Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 891 consecutive DTC patients followed at the Section of Endocrinology, University...