Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Our objective for the current review was to inquire the thyroid cancer frequency rate within the patients who have had total thyroidectomy procedure for definitive Graves’ disease treatment and to evaluate the contribution of the presence of nodules to malignity rates.Materials and methods: The present study was conducted by scanning the data of 214 patients who were applied total thyroidectomy for permanent Graves disease treatment, r...

Introduction: The incidence rate of papillary thyroid microcarsinoma (PTMC) has almost doubled during the recent years but treatment and follow up is still a matter of debate. In this study we aimed to analyze clinical and histopathological risk factors at the time of diagnosis and to observe their implications for treatment, follow up and prognosis.Patients and methods: Two hundred forty-eight PTMC patients were included in this study. The age, sex, the...