Endocrine Abstracts

Evaluation of bone quality represents a challenge since the analysis by bone mineral density (BMD), provides useful but incomplete information. New tools are arising, and amog them, TBS is emerging as a new surrogate marker of bone texture and microarchitecture which may be useful to potentially evaluate the risk of bone fracture and can be obtained from already existing BMD scans. Retrospective study of 23 patients with PHH. Clinical, analytical and BMD data were collected fo...

Introduction: One of the main difficulties in the study of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) is their wide heterogeneity and variable outcome. Several potential influencing factors on patient survival have been recently identified. These factors could help predict patients’ prognosis.Objectives: Analysis of long-term survival of our GEP-NETs cohort according to the presence of metastatic disease, tumor grade, age, sex, tumor fu...