Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenal cortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare and aggressive malignancy. Most patients (80%) are asymptomatic at the time of diagnosis. ACC generally has a poor prognosis with a 5-year survival rate of 20–25%.Case: A 37-year-old man came to the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics for general weakness, fatigue, intermittent abdominal pain, and weight loss (~ 10 kg in 9 months). During the abdominal US, the m...

IntroductionInadequately managed papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients result in potentially higher fatal outcomes due to a lack of sufficient prognostic data/markers, inadequate periodic individualized follow-up risk assessments and/or insufficient initial treatment. MiR-146b, -21, -221, -222, -181b are potential biomarkers for risk stratification of PTC.AimThe aim of our study was to analyze expression...