Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: Genomic instability play a role in cancer development through different mechanisms including chromosome fragility and in particular the altered telomere length (TL). Previous studies showed that the presence of short telomeres in the blood was associated with development of sporadic head and neck, bladder, lung, renal and breast cancer. In thyroid cancer, has been demonstrated that familial form of papillary thyroid cancer (FPTC) has shorter telomeres in blood leuk...

Introduction: Angiogenesis plays an important role in the growth and processes of tumors, often indicating neovascularity. However the role of vascularization in thyroid nodules observed with power or color doppler has always been debated. Therefore, most of thyroid nodules sonographic risk classification do not consider vascularization as an important features in predicting the risk of malignancy. In the last years a new vascular imaging technique, Superb Microvascular Imagin...