Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Incidence of concomitant thyroid cancer and Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) is found to be 0.3–58% in different series. In this study, we aimed to find out HT incidence in thyroid cancer patients in our clinic and we tried to determine ultasonographic and histopathologic features of tumor in these patients.Method: About 165 patients diagnosed with thyroid carcinoma between 2005 and 2008 were included in the study. Patients with Graves’s d...

Introduction: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been widely accepted the most accurate, safe and cost-effective method for evaluation of the thyroid nodules. The most challenging category in the FNAC is atypia of undetermined significance (AUS) and follicular lesion of undetermined significance (FLUS). Bethesda System (BS) recommends repeat FNAC in that category due to their low risk of malignancy. In our study, we aimed to investigate the malignancy rate of thyroid n...

Introduction: Our objective for the current review was to inquire the thyroid cancer frequency rate within the patients who have had total thyroidectomy procedure for definitive Graves’ disease treatment and to evaluate the contribution of the presence of nodules to malignity rates.Materials and methods: The present study was conducted by scanning the data of 214 patients who were applied total thyroidectomy for permanent Graves disease treatment, r...

Introduction: Nodule diameter was considered to be related with thyroid cancer. Whether under ultrasound (US) guidance or not, FNAB has some limitations particularly in big nodules. In this study, we aimed to evaluate diagnostic value of US-FNAB in nodules bigger than 3 cm or more. We also compared ultrasonographical features of benign and malignant nodules.Material and methods: Data of 267 patients operated for nodulary goiter were screened retrospectiv...

Introduction: The incidence rate of papillary thyroid microcarsinoma (PTMC) has almost doubled during the recent years but treatment and follow up is still a matter of debate. In this study we aimed to analyze clinical and histopathological risk factors at the time of diagnosis and to observe their implications for treatment, follow up and prognosis.Patients and methods: Two hundred forty-eight PTMC patients were included in this study. The age, sex, the...