Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Treatment with somatostatin analogues (SSA) leads to shrinkage of pituitary adenoma in acromegaly naïve patients, as shown by the PRIMARYS study. Therefore the effect of this treatment on surgery was investigated.Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of pre-treatment with SSA in acromegaly patients qualified for neurosurgery.Material and methods: Group A (46 patients: 36 female, 10 male) were pre-treated with SSA. Group ...

Medical documentation of 976 patients treated and followed-up over the years 2001–2006 at our 131- radioiodine treatment centre was analysed with respect to their thyroid cancer staging. The mean age at their time of diagnosis was 59±15.1 years. From histopathology, papillary, follicular or poorly differentiated cancer was diagnosed in 87.6, 11.7, and 0.7% of these patients, respectively. The mean ages of patients with papillary, follicular or poorly differentiated c...