Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although numerous noninvasive markers are being used in order to determine preoperative thyroid cancer risk in patients with multi-nodular goiter, none of them are optimal. The objective of this study was to compare retrospectively the TSH level between two groups of subjects who underwent total thyroidectomy for a nodule and whose final histology was benign or malignant.Methods: Our study included 208 patients that underwent thyroidectomy ...

Background: The main objective of this study is to establish the rate of malignancy in residual thyroid tissue in patients with DTC, and whether the serum thyroglobulin (Tg) level before complementary thyroidectomy and histopathologic characteristics of the tumor would be able to foresee malignancy in residual tissue.Methods: Our study included 58 patients with DTC that underwent complementary thyroidectomy that results were analyzed retrospectively. Pat...

Introduction: It is commonly known that hearing and balance functions are affected in thyroid function disorders. In literature, there are very few studies demonstrating that hearing may be affected due to autoimmunity in euthyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) independent from thyroid functions. In addition, hearing disorders have also been reported in other autoimmune diseases. For this reason, we investigated the functions of the peripheral and central sections of audit...