Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The recommendations for action in a Bethesda category III are to repeat the cytology or to perform molecular tests, and if these are inconclusive, surveillance or surgical indication may be maintained, depending on the risk factors, ultrasound characteristics of the nodule and patient preference. In case of category IV of Bethesda, the recommendation is the surgery. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of age, gender and nodule size on the incidenc...

Objective: Thyroid cancer is the most common of the endocrine tumors, with papillary being the most frequent. There is no consensus about prophylactic central cervical dissection in patients with papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. The aim of this study is to analyze surgical complications and the rate of recurrence of papillary carcinoma in patients undergoing total thyroidectomy and prophylactic central cervical dissection, and patients submitted to total thyroidectomy alone...

IntroductionHypoparathyroidism (hypoPT) is one of the most complications after thyroid surgery, usually as transient hypocalcemia. Permanent hypoPT due to permanent parathyoid lesion, despite being less frequent, is associated to long term consequences for both objective and subjective well-being and should be prevented. Identifying predictive factors associated with post- thyroidectomy hypoPT is thereby crucial.Aim<p class="ab...

Introduction: Recent studies point to an ever increasing papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) prevalence, with a percentage range between 20 and 43% of all differentiated thyroid carcinomas. It is many times considered an ‘incidental’ finding and its clinical behaviour is uncertain.Aims: To characterize a cohort of patients with PTMC, with reference to clinical and pathological variables and outcome.Methods: Data from ...