Endocrine Abstracts

The clinical significance and potential morbidity of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMC) is discussed. Particularly the differences between those PTMC identified postoperatively in histological examination (incidentals), and those diagnosed preoperatively (non-incidentals). We retrospectively analysed differences in clinical presentation and course after treatment in these two groups. The study population consisted of 199 patients with PTMC who underwent surgery from 2000...

Introduction: Intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay (ioPTH) has been validated as a useful tool for predicting postoperative hypocalcaemia (hypoCa) after thyroid surgery and has been proposed as a guide to early discharge from hospital. Its value to predict the risk of future hypoparathyroidism (hypoPT) has not been analyzed in detail. We evaluate this role in our recent surgical series.Description of methods/design: Patients with total thyroidectomy ...