Endocrine Abstracts

BackgroundThyroid diseases and diabetes are the two most common endocrinopathies. A relationship between these two conditions is suggested by many studies, as diabetic population seems to present increased thyroid impairment. However, clinical data are still very sparse.AimTo evaluate thyroid morphologic characteristics among patients with different glucose tolerance status.Material and...

Introduction: Thyroid nodules (TN) may display somatic RAS mutations, that, however, lack of diagnostic value. In our experience, somatic RAS mutation evaluation could be useful since it has a very high negative predictive value. In the past, somatic RAS mutation had been associated with a good prognosis in thyroid cancer.Objective: This study aims to evaluate whether somatic RAS mutation may associate with TN differential growth pattern.<p class="ab...