Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid papillary carcinomas originate from thyroid follicular epithelia and are the most frequent thyroid differentiated carcinomas. Medullary thyroid carcinomas originate from thyroid parafollicular C cells and %25 are a component of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) syndromes. Co-incidence of the two condition on the same patient is so rare.Case: 78 years old female patient who has had simple goiter for 10 years, was investigated about ...

Introduction: Differentiated thyroid carcinomas (DTC) are originated from thyroid follicular epithelial cells and comprises %90 of all thyroid carcinomas. Researches indicate that sorafenib is more efficacious than other chemotherapeutic agents on metastatic iodide refractory DTCs.Material and methods: In our center, between 2013 and 2015, sorafenib was applied to six patients who had iodide refractory metastatic DTC. Five of the patients were female. Th...