Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The differential diagnosis of cystic cervical masses includes thyroid cyst, thymic cyst, thyroglossal duct cyst, branchial cleft cyst, bronchogenic cyst, lymphangioma and parathyroid cyst (PC). PC is one of the less common causes of the cervical masses.Methods: We report the case of a 37-year-old man admitted to the hospital with a neck mass of 48 mm.Results: Our patient presented with neck pain and an hipoechogenic n...

Introduction: Follicular neoplasm (FN) or suspicious for a follicular neoplasm category is established by The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology because of the necessity to identify a nodule that might be a follicular carcinoma and triage it for surgical lobectomy. Estimated risk of malignancy for this category is 15–30%.Description of methods: We conducted a retrospective study that included all patients with a follicular neoplasm ...