Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Since 2006 according to the European consensus for the management of patients with DTC, in tumors ≤ 1 cm, treatment with thyroidectomy alone without 131I treatment was suggested. Therefore, in our institution, we applied this suggestion in clinical practice, although prospective studies were not still available. Aim of this study is to evaluate the rate of the events occurring in a medium-long term follow-up.Patients and Meth...

Background: Lymph node metastases at histology (pN1) are usual findings in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients. Their detection has an impact on the extent of surgery, the further treatments after surgery, and on the clinical outcome.Material and method: We evaluated data of 1332 consecutive DTC patients who performed the first 131I treatment between January 2010 and September 2012. According to their pN status, they were divided into...

Background: PET/CT scan with 18F-fluoro-dihydroxyphenylalanine (18F–DOPA) is an emerging useful tool in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) patients with high calcitonin (CTN) values. The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential usefulness of 18F-DOPA-PET/CT in MTC patients with biochemical incomplete response (BiR) (detectable CTN values and negative/indeterminate findings at CT scan with i.v. contrast).Materials a...

Objectives: PET/CT scan with 18F-fluoro-dihydroxyphenylalanine (18F-DOPA) is an emerging useful tool in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) patients. The question whether 18F-DOPA-PET/CT could be useful in MTC patients with biochemical incomplete response (BiR) is to clarify.Methods: Fifty-three MTC patients with BiR performed 18F-DOPA-PET/CT scan between May 2021 and December 2022 after having performed total body ...

Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a common endocrine disease mainly caused by a single parathyroid adenoma. Although the localization of the parathyroid adenoma is not a surgical criterion for parathyroidectomy (PTX), this is known to increase the cure rate and reduce the complication rate. Neck ultrasound and MIBI-scintigraphy are the first-line techniques to detect hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue, however, they have some limitations including the operator-dependent s...

Objectives: Currently 131I treatment after surgery is suggested in selected intermediate-risk and in high-risk patients with DTC. In patients with radio-avid structural disease and in those with biochemical disease a second 131I treatment could be considered. However data about the impact of the second 131I treatment on clinical status remains controversial.Methods: Clinical data of 231 DTC patients followed at the Unit o...