Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Reoperation due to recurrent or persistent thyroid cancer (TC) poses a real challenge to a surgeon who must properly estimate the benefit risk-ratio. Radioguided occult lesion localization (ROLL) technique may facilitate the localization and sufficient and safe removal of nonpalpable TC relapse.Aim: To analyze the efficacy of the ROLL technique in reoperation of TC relapse.Material and methods: A retrospective study o...

Aim: The assessment of the disease course and selected clinicopathological factors associated with recurrence risk and the effectiveness of surgical treatment of PTC patients.Material and Methods: The retrospective analysis of 260 PTC patients selected from 403 patients operated on for recurrent thyroid cancer between 2002 and 2018 was performed. All statistical analyses were done using the programming environment R (v. 4.0.2).Resu...

Introduction: Germline mutations of RET oncogene result in development of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2). There is a strong correlation between type of the RET sequence changes and the aggressiveness of main syndrome feature, medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), and the incidence of remaining manifestations, mainly pheochromocytoma (PHEO). For many of the RET germline mutations, the clinical risk have been precisely defined, but there are ...