Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Patients diagnosed with DTC have excellent prognosis. A small percentage of patients with disease persistence do not respond to treatment with RAI (RAI-refractory DTC) and have low median survival (3.5 years). We investigated the prognostic factors and the disease course in patients with RAI-refractory DTC.Methods: Of all DTC patients (n=1160) followed-up in our department in recent years, 800 received RAI treatment and were classified in 2...

Objective: Simultaneous occurrence of MTC and DTC is frequently found. It is unclear whether there is a common pathogenic mechanism. Aim of our study was to characterize clinical features of MTC when coexisting with DTC.Methods: Of 273 MTC patients followed-up in our department 39 (14.3%) had MTC simultaneously with DTC. They were divided in 4 subgroups according to size. Clinical histopathological data were recorded.Results: The p...