Endocrine Abstracts

BackgroundThyroidectomy is the common most common endocrine surgical procedure varies from Scalpel to Robotic transoral thyroidectomy. Colloid nodules are common and easily operable without any difficulty. We report a phenomenon where in the surgery becomes difficult and lead to complications if not thought with this phenomenon – colloid leak.Material and methodThe endocrine surgeon (Associate Professor)...

Introduction: Noise in the operating room is an ongoing problem and impacts the outcome of surgery. Noise as stressor can produce a startle reaction and activate fight or flight response of the autonomic and endocrine system. The psychobiology of the stress as assessed by salivary cortisol level is a sensitive measure of allostatic load. In this study, we correlated salivary cortisol levels of the surgical team with noise measurement and also whether the noise in OR subjective...

Background: Thyroidectomy is the common most common endocrine surgical procedure varies from Scalpel to Robotic transoral thyroidectomy. Colloid nodules are common and easily operable without any difficulty. We report a phenomenon where in the surgery becomes difficult and lead to complications if not thought with this phenomenon – colloid leak.Material and Method: The endocrine surgeon (Associate Professor) has been involved in training of over 25 ...

A 45-year-old lady from the Iodine - deficient Himalayan belt presented to us with a gradually progressive, painless goiter for more than 20 years. Such goiters were common in her village. She neither had symptoms of hyper/hypothyroidism nor any compressive symptoms. She had four living issues and as per her, the goiter would increase in size during the second trimester of each pregnancy. On examination, she had a huge thyroid swelling involving both lobes and isthumus, measur...

Background: Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma after Radioactive Iodine therapy for Graves’ disease is rare with few cases reported in literature. Presentation of case A 28 years gentleman, presented with multiple non tender swellings in the anterior aspect of the neck, insidious in onset, initially started as a single swelling in the left side of the size 3×2 cm. Three years prior, he received I 131 therapy for Graves thyrotoxicosis. Thereafter, developed hypothyroidism af...