Endocrine Abstracts

The purpose of this study is to assess the treatment outcome of pregnant patients with Graves-Basedow disease. In the period of 20 years 59 pregnancies in hyperthyroid patients were registered with Graves-Basedow disease in the Department of Nuclear Medicine in Clinical Hospital Bitola. Thyrostatic therapy was applied in 29 (56.5%) pregnant patients divided into 2 groups. The first group were patients who used methimazole therapy (MMT) or 50–400 mg propiltiuracil (PTU). O...

The cystic nodule is by its origin a real or pseudo cyst. According to the date of literature the papillary thyroid carcinoma is being detected in the cystic nodule in up to 27% of the cases. Ultrasound is the best diagnostic method of the cystic nodule and fine needle aspiration under ultrasound examination is a diagnostic method for cytological diagnosis.Results: Seventy patients with detected cystic nodule underwent fine needle aspiration and the aspi...