Endocrine Abstracts

The waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) has recently gained attention as an anthropometric index showing the highest predictive value for cardiometabolic risk in PCOS and healthy women. Central adiposity is the key driving force behind a constellation of inflammatation linked to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases. PCOS is also considered to be linked to chronic inflammatory processes. Platelet count ratio/mean platelet volume (PLT/MPV), lymphocyte&#150...

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is an autosomal dominant condition characterized by varying combinations of endocrine tumors and commonly accompanying hyperplasia within the parathyroid gland, anterior pituitary and gastrointestinal tract. Heterozygous germline mutation of the tumor suppressor gene MEN1 is the most common cause of the disease. Molecular genetic testing of menin gene, in which mutation is known to cause MEN1 syndrome, detects pathogenic...

Thyroid carcinoma showing thymus-like differentiation (CASTLE) is an extremely rare thyroid neoplasm. This type of tumour may arise from branchial pouch remnants or ectopic thymus and is considered as independent clinicopathological entity of thyroid neoplasms. There have been only about 100 cases described in the literature, so far. Here, we have retrospectively analyzed the data from histopathology and clinics of a 70 year old female patient with thyroid CASTLE who underwent...

Introduction: Despite numerous studies, the biological association between chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT) and differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) has not been elucidated yet. The aim of the study was to assess whether the presence of CLT exerts any influence on clinical or histological presentation of DTC.Materials and methods: Complete medical records of 907 consecutive patients with DTC treated at a single tertiary care department of endocrinolo...