Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: High-resolution US and US FNA are techniques of great relevance in the evaluation of thyroid nodules. They are being used much more often by endocrinologists all over the world. In our Endocrinology Department, we started them in 2006; since then they have been progressively amplified. We present our results of US FNA performed from January 2007 until December 2009.Patients and methods: Two thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven FNA were ...

Introduction: About 20% of fine needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid (FNA) with result of follicular tumour (FT) is malignant. Several factors have been suggested as indicators of malignancy.Objectives: To determine predictive factors of malignancy in FNA with result of FT.Methods: We evaluated retrospectively 140 clinical files of patients with cytology (ultrasound-guided or palpation) of FT. Presence of relationship between malign...