Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Serum calcitonin (CT) is a very sensitive test for the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). However, its routine dosage in patients with nodular thyroid disease is not recommended by all scientific societies. In addition, to optimize costs, it is only suggested in the case of suspicious nodules on ultrasound, indeterminate nodules at cytology or nodular goiter before surgery. The aim of the study is to evaluate the serum CT in a series of consecutive MTC...

Background: The last American Thyroid Association guidelines (ATA-2015) defined the risk of structural recurrence in patients with DTC cured after initial treatment and according to the initial histology. However, these data resulted from several studies including different patients with different kinds of treatment. We retrospectively evaluated a large population of patients with DTC, treated and followed in a tertiary referral center, with the aim to characterize the rate of...