Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Adrenal incidentalomas are defined as clinically silent adrenal masses >1 cm in size and are detected in up to 10% of patients during imaging procedures performed for unrelated conditions. 17% and 23% of incidentally detected adrenal lesions were reported to be bilateral. The bilateral adrenal tumors include metastasis, lymphoma, neuroblastoma, pheochromocytoma, adenoma and myelolipoma. Non-neoplastic bilateral adrenal masses include infectious processes and he...

Introduction: Malignant struma ovari is a rare ovarian mature teratoma. The diagnosis can be done histopathologically. There are no specific diagnostic findings in terms of imaging, clinical and laboratory. We present two cases of malignant struma ovarii in papillary follicular variant subtypes in this report.Case report: Case 1; The patient was a 44 year old female, she had complaints of pelvic pain and a palpable lower abdominal mass. Pelvic MRI examin...

Background: Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) is a papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) type with a maximum diameter of ≤ 10 mm. Generally, PTMCs have good prognosis and low mortality risk. However, there are cases of PTMCs showing more biologically aggressive characteristics, such as lymph node (LN) involvement and distant metastasis.Objectives: Reveal the factors affecting the prognosis and aggressiveness of PTMCs.Methods: ...

Introduction: Papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMC) are usually detected incidentally. They occur as a result of histological/microscopic examination of a thyroid removed especially for nodular goiter. Generally, the prognosis is good. However, it has been reported that lymph node (LN) metastasis is more common especially in PTMCs with tumor size > 5mm. In this study, it was aimed to show the effect of tumor size on prognosis by comparing clinicopathological data in pat...