Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Treatment of hyperthyroidism in older adults is crucial to reduce its morbidity and mortality. Radioactive iodine has been widely used in this age group due to its efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness.Aim: To determine the efficacy of 131I for treatment of hyperthyroidism in the elderly.Methods: Retrospective study of 86 hyperthyroid patients aged ≥65 years who performed radioiodine therapy. We eva...

Introduction: Intraoperative identification of neck lesions in patients who have undergone previous neck surgery is particularly difficult, because of operative scarring and distorted anatomy. Radioguided occult lesion localisation (ROLL) involves the preoperative intratumoral ultrasound-guided injection of a radioactive tracer. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy of roll in two patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) who underwent previous neck exploration...

Metabolic liver dysfunction can be a causative factor for morbity and mortality in Berardinelli–Seip syndrome patients. We evaluated hepatic function in 29 Berardinelli–Seip patients. Diabetes mellitus (DM) was present in 23 of them. We analyzed biochemical parameters including AST, ALT, GGT, ALP levels and liver non invasive imaging aspects. The liver was graded as normal, mild, moderate, or severe hepatic steatosis.Results: We could not find ...

Introduction: Although recognized as a risk factor in most staging systems, including the UICC TNM classification, the significance of microscopic extrathyroid extension (ETE) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) remains controversial. Despite this fact, its diagnosis by a pathologist following surgery for tumours ≤ 4 cm without metastases means an upstaging to pT3 and stage III in patients over 45 years, implying a poorer survival. Our study aimed to evaluate the impact...