Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: The British Thyroid Association published guidelines on the management of differentiated thyroid cancer and medullary thyroid cancer in 2007. The aim of our audit was to assess compliance with these guidelines.Methods: Electronic records of patients operated on and followed up in our hospital from January 2009 to December 2013 were reviewed retrospectively.Results: Forty-nine patients fulfilling these criteria were identified....

An 82 year old gentleman was admitted with lethargy, shortness of breath and weight loss of 26% total body weight over a two-year period. His past medical history included hypertension, pulmonary fibrosis, thalassaemia trait and unexplained thrombocytopenia.He had previously been investigated for weight loss with a CT thorax/abdomen/pelvis in 2014 which demonstrated no evidence of malignancy and FDG PET had shown no disease.On admi...