Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The increased rate of thyroid malignancy as well as incidental and subcentimeter thyroid nodules have been attributed to increasing use of high-resolution US which can detect the non-palpabl or subcentimeter (maximum diameter ≤1 cm) thyroid nodules. We aimed to evaluate the sonographic features of the tyroid nodules between ≤1 cm and > 1 cm according the histopathology results and to determine the ultrasonographical predictive factors for malignan...

Background: Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) have proven to be the most valuable diagnostic procedure for preoperative discrimination of benign and malignant thyroid nodules. Thyroid surgery may cause regional scarring and some degree of fibrotic process which may result in problems when collecting FNAB samples and evaluating the cellular abnormalities. In this study, we aimed to determine whether the Bethesd...

Aim: While the histopathological diagnosis is parathyroid adenoma in majority of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT),parathyroid hyperplasia, atypical parathyroid adenoma or parathyroid carcinoma can be seen in others. Although it is known that serum calcium (Ca) and parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels are higher in patients with parathyroid carcinoma, there are not any cut-off value for serum Ca, phosphorus (P) and PTH levels defined for different histopathological ...