Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) are two different types of thyroid carcinoma with significant different clinical and histological findings. Synchronous occurrence of these two carcinomas is uncommon. The aim of the study is to determinate the clinical, histological and therapeutic aspects of the coexistence of medullary and papillary thyroid carcinomas.Materials and Methods: We report two rare cases o...

Introduction: Total thyroidectomy is the most common surgical procedure for the treatment of thyroid diseases. Postoperative hypoparathyroidism and the resulting hypocalcemia are frequent complications after total thyroidectomy. The aim of this study was to assess the rate of postoperative hypoparathyroidism after total thyroidectomy in order to identify potential risk factors. Methods: We designed a retrospective study including 387 patients with total ...

Introduction: The association between chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) has been investigated for several years from different perspectives. In spite of that, there were only few attempts to design a common frame of references to understand the complex mutual interactions between the various pathways of inflammatory response and of thyroid tumor induction and progression. The aim of this study is to investigate the clinical characteris...