Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Elastography is an ultrasound technique that allows to predict risk of malignancy of examined lesion by assessing their stiffness. Its effectiveness in thyroid nodules is equivocal which may result from insufficient standardization.Aim: Analysis of factors affecting the repeatability and reproducibility of elastographic measurements of thyroid nodules.Methods: 124 nodules in 118 patients were analyzed. Elastographic mea...

Background: Elastography is a procedure that widen diagnostic ultrasonography (US) but its significance in thyroid diagnostics has not been settled.Aim: Comparison of usefulness of elastography and conventional malignancy risk features (MRF) in the diagnostics of thyroid nodules, analysis of elastographic characteristics of follicular lesions of undetermined significance (FLUS).Methods: Analysis included 38 benign lesions (BL), 15 ...

Preoperative localization of the pathological parathyroid gland is critical in the clinical evaluation of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) before surgical resection. Unfortunately, scintigraphy nor ultrasound-guided FNAB do not show enough accuracy in this respect, especially in patients with concurrent thyroid pathology.The aim of the investigation was to assess the usefulness of measurements of PTH concentration in FNAB washouts (PTH-FNA...

Cadherins are proteins important for regulation of cell to cell adhesion. It has been postulated that the loss of cadherins may be an essential step in progression of cancer cell dedifferation, leading to increased metastatic potential. In the present study, the immunoexpression of E-cadherin was examined in various types of thyroid neoplasms and compared with that expression in normal thyroid tissue. The histopathological slides from 138 thyroid carcinomas (90 papillary, 8 fo...