Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: Disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and hand (DASH) questionnaire is a self-administered region-specific outcome instrument developed as a measure of self-rated upper-extremity disability and symptoms. The DASH consists mainly of a 30-item disability/symptom scale. In this study, we aimed to evaluate DASH questionnaire in 1000 type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients.Material and methods: 297 patients (mean age 52.13±9.37 years, 190 women and 10...

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN2A) is a complex autosomal dominant inherited syndrome characterized by medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), phaeochromocytoma, and primary parathyroid hyperplasia (PPH). In patients with only one or two clinical features, identification of a germline rearranged in transfection (RET) mutation or the identification of the clinical features of MEN2A in other first degree relatives is required to make the diagnosis. We present ...