Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is usually tied to an excellent prognosis, with a 10-year disease specific survival rate of 98%. Nevertheless, some clinicopathological features are associated with a worse outcome. Therefore, a precise risk assessment is crucial for the clinicians deciding the most appropriate treatment for each tumour. Multifocal tumours (MFPTC) appear to have be a worse prognosis than unifocal tumours (UFPTC) in some series, but this aspect is di...

Introduction: American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines suggest considering hemithyroidectomy in patients with unifocal well-differentiated thyroid tumours,smaller than 4 cm, withoutpreoperative evidence of extrathyroidal extension (ETE) nor lymph node metastases. Although multifocal microcarcinomas are considered to increase the risk of structural disease recurrence from 1%–2% to 4%–6% compared to unifocal microcarcinomas, the ATA guidelines do not sugges...

Procalcitonin (PCT) is a sepsis diagnostic marker and mortality predictor, although its elevation can be related to other diseases such as medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). A 72-year-old woman was transferred to the intensive care unit of our institution from another center. One week before, she had been admitted with a clinical picture of progressive malaise, fever, and dyspnea. Weeks before her admission, she had consulted for dyspnea, anorexia, asthenia, and weight loss. I...