Endocrine Abstracts

Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid gland (PSCCT) is a rare neoplasm of the thyroid with a poor prognosis. We present a 70-year-old male patient who presented with a progressively growing mass on the left side of the neck causing shortness of breath. The patient presented with suspicious poorly-differentiated malignancy as a result of the thyroid fine-needle aspiration cytology performed due to the rapidly growing mass. No other primary tumor focus was detected in t...

Background and Objective: Smoking increases the risk of Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) in patients with Graves’ disease (GD). Therefore, smoking cessation should be recommended to all patients with GD. This study aimed to investigate whether smoking cessation recommendations were taken into account in patients with GD and whether there was a difference in terms of smoking cessation between those with and without GO.Methods: Smoking status of the case...

Background and Objectives: Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is considered as a marker of cellular aging. Brown adipose tissue in women has been claimed to be associated with long life in women. Neuregulin-4 is a new batokine secreted from brown adipose tissue, and it is thought to play a role in the regulation of glucose, lipid metabolism and energy balance. The aim of the study is to examine LTL and serum Neuregulin-4 levels as well as their relations with disease activity, co...