Endocrine Abstracts

Carcinoma of the thyroid gland is an uncommon cancer but is the most common malignancy of the endocrine system. The treatment of the thyroid cancer includes surgery, radioactive iodine and hormone treatment. Postoperative hypothyroidism is the most common complication of thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer. After thyroidectomy, the patient takes a thyroid hormone drug (levothyroxine) in supresive dose for the rest of his life.In hypothyroidism there has bee...

BIOMAT-ENDO software is a Windows Forms application that stores all the main data regarding the patients with thyroid cancer (TC) hospitalized in the Nuclear Medicine Department of the National Institute of Endocrinology in Bucharest, starting with the first hospitalization, continuing with the periods of radioiodine therapy (RIT) and the follow up. Patient-monitoring MODULE contains clinical parameters, surgery details, in Vivo and in Vitro investig...

Introduction: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma is a rare entity in pediatric population, with particularities in diagnosis, management and outcomes.Methods, aim: Retrospective noninterventional study describing clinical presentation and outcomes of children with DTC.Results: Between 2011 and 2017 54 children and adolescents aged 7.8–18 years (mean age at diagnoses 14.4 years) with DTC were diagnosed/followed up in our Institut...

For over 50 years the casuistic of patients with thyroid cancer registered in the Nuclear Medicine Department of the National Institute of Endocrinology in Bucharest, Romania, has over 12 000 cases. In the last 6 years, a total of 2580 new cases have been added. They are organized in a ‘classic file’ format. As a necessity and the first step in order to build a digital national database, we developed the BIOMAT-ENDO software as a Windows Forms application that stores...