Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) has an excellent prognosis with a relatively low recurrent and mortality rate, but a small portion of DTC patients suffers from an aggressive form of the disease with tumor invasion and metastasis. Accurate identification of this group of DTC patients is of crucial importance to optimizing individualized DTC treatment. This study aimed to retrospectively investigate the clinicopathologic predictive factors of cervical lymph no...

BackgroundPituitary apoplexy (PA) is a rare clinical syndrome, usually occurring in the pituitary adenoma due to a sudden bleeding and/or infarction. PA is usually seen in nonfunctional pituitary adenomas, but it can also be seen in ACTH secreting macroadenomas. The most common symptoms PA, which complicates 2 to 12% of pituitary adenomas, are severe and sudden headache, visual disturbances, or eye paralysis, and endocrinological abnormalities. PA is dia...