Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Routine central lymph node dissection (CLND) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is controversial. Selective biopsy of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) could improve the surgical approach, as negative cases would benefit from avoiding a more aggressive technique and in positive samples a more accurate staging would be obtained.Aim: To analyze the usefulness of SLN biopsy in the surgical treatment of PTC.Patients and Met...

Introduction: Ghrelin gene products ghrelin and obestatin have apparent opposite orexigenic and anorexigenic effects, although this latter has not been firmly demonstrated for obestatin in humans. So far, no information has been reported in relation to its potential association to metabolic syndrome (MS).Objective: To study obestatin concentrations in relation to nutritional parameters and eating behavior in old women.Methods: One ...