Endocrine Abstracts

Distant metastases as initial manifestation of follicular thyroid carcinoma is rare. We report a case of an unusual initial presentation of follicular thyroid carcinoma on follow-up. A 52-year-old woman presented with a 12-month history of progressively enlarging mass in the anterior chest wall. The mass was fixed to the chest wall, measuring 12×10 cm in diameter. Computed tomography demonstrated a lobulated soft-tissue mass (17×11×6 cm) destructing sternum and ...

Objective: Our aim was to determine the prevalence and clinicopathological characteristics of thyroid cancers in the dialysis population and to evaluate potential risk factors.Design: We performed a retrospective analysis of our end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on dialysis and thyroidectomized patients without ESRD (2000–2006). Then we compared the data of thyroid cancer patients on dialysis (n=9) with the data of patients who had hist...

Objective: Approximately 30% of patients with thyroid nodules have indeterminate, nondiagnostic, or suspicious fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy results. These patients usually undergo thyroidectomy because of cancer risk. Our aim was to determine diagnostic markers to distinguish benign from malignant thyroid neoplasms, so we focused on G2-M boundary regulators of the cell cycle and investigated the expression of two proteins, cyclin A and cyclin B1.M...