Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The ATA guidelines 2015 suggests lobectomy as an option for low risk thyroid tumors between 1–4 cm, although there remains some controversy once some characteristics become apparent only on pathologic examination.Objective/methods: Retrospective analysis of patients who underwent thyroid surgery in 2014 and 2015, with a histologic diagnosis of WDTC 1–4 cm in size and revision of the proportion of patients eligible for lobectomy wi...

Introduction: Several recent studies have reported an increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer during the last decades. The delineation between low-risk and high-risk tumor size is not well defined. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the primary tumor size of differentiated thyroid cancer and clinicopathologic data.Methods: We have analysed all records of all patients submitted to thyroidectomy at our hospital between 2...

Introduction: Recent data reveal that in the last 25 years it has been a 2.4 fold increase in thyroid cancer, with concomitant rise in thyroid microcarcinoma cases. The main purpose of this study was to analyse the surgical indications that leads to incidentally noted papillary microcarcinoma diagnosis.Methods: We analysed clinicopathologic data of nineteen cases of incidentally found papillary thyroid microcarcinoma, from 1244 thyroid surgeries realized...