Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In 2004, the multidisciplinary thyroid nodule committee of our centre adopted the cytological classification from the British Thyroid Association for reporting fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) results and agreed about its proper management: Thy1, inadequate sample, repeat FNAB. Thy2, benign; follow up, repeat FNAB if nodule growth; Thy3 indeterminate or follicular lesions; surgery or repeat FNAB at 6 months if low clinical, sonographic or cytologyc suspicious...

Introduction: A modification of the cytological classification from the ‘British Thyroid Association – Royal College of Physicians’ has been adapted for reporting fine-needle-puncture (FNP) cytology results since 2004 (Thy score). Five diagnostic categories have been agreed by our multidisciplinary committee: Thy1, inadequate sample; Thy2, benign; Thy3 indeterminate; Thy4, suspicious; Thy5, malignant.Aim: Evaluate the correlation between c...

Pegvisomant (peg) is an effective treatment for acromegaly.Aim: To investigate the prevalence of escape and the incidence of lipodystrophy with peg treatment.Methods: Multicenter retrospective study. Escape was defined as loss of control in patients previously controlled under a stable dose of peg, without any other treatment change. Lipodystrophy was defined as either hypertrophy or atrophy of subcutaneous tissue in areas of drug ...