Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To determine whether multiple fine needle passes to the same thyroid nodule in the fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) session affect sufficient and/or atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS) cytological result.Materials and Methods: Ultrasonography (US) and cyto-histopathology results of the nodules of patients who were diagnosed with thyroid nodules and underwent FNA between May-August 2021 wer...

Aim: Postoperative hypocalcemia is seen in 26-42% patients after parathyroidectomy.There are quite a lot of studies investigating preoperative factors that might be used to predict postoperative hypocalcemia in thyroidectomized patients, however there are less studies in parathyroidectomized patients.In this study, our aim was to determine whether any preoperative clinical, laboratory or ultrasonographical feature anticipate hypocalcemia in parathyroidectomized patients due to...

Introduction: True risk evaluation is important in the management of thyroid cancer. We aimed to evaluate patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) according to the different staging systems.Method: Data of patients diagnosed with DTC between 2007 and 2014 at our institution were analysed retrospectively. TNM, MACIS, EORTC, AMES, De Groot, ETA, LATS, and ATA staging systems were applied to patients according to their original description. In ATA ...