Endocrine Abstracts

An endocrine specialist pharmacist has been running an adrenal incidentaloma clinic since September 2020. As of Jun-22 258 patients have been seen in clinic and managed using a local protocol. Adrenal incidentaloma patient referrals are screened as per current guidelines on receipt; those measuring <1 cm are declined, suspected adrenocortical carcinomas are seen by a consultant and referred elsewhere if needed. All others are seen by the endocrine pharmacist within 4 weeks...

Background: There is much debate about the best imaging modality for parathyroid adenoma. Parathyroid ultrasound is operator dependent and in skilled hands leads to localisation of tumour. Small adenomas can be difficult to detect and radiologists are helped by clinical and biochemical data to predict ease of adenoma detection. We investigated whether any factors could predict adenoma size.Methodology: This was a retrospective CWS analysis of patients wh...