Endocrine Abstracts

Aim of the work: In patients with differentiated thyroid cancer, the basic goal of the therapy is to improve overall and disease-specific survival, reduce the risk of persistent/recurrent disease while minimizing treatment-related morbidity and unnecessary therapy. In 2015, the American Thyroid Association (ATA) published evidence-based guidelines for the staging and management of differentiated thyroid cancer, including the possibility of avoiding systematic complementary 131...

Ectopic parathyroid tissue remains a significant hurdle in the surgical management of hyperparathyroidism. In diagnostically challenging cases of persistent hyperparathyroidism, unusual ectopic locations of parathyroid adenomas must be considered in order to avoid numerous re-operative explorations and the associated risks to the patient. We present a 30-year-old female was referred to the endocrinology department for symptomatic hypercalcemia. Routine laboratory investigation...