Endocrine Abstracts

Majority of prolactinomas consists of the small microadenomas that can be treated with dopamine agonists, but they can present different biological behavior features and not infrequently seen as macroadenomas or in giant adenoma size. There are different results on finding of studies which investigate the relationship between high levels of cell proliferation indicators with tumor behavior in pituitary adenomas. In this study, Ki 67 index to investigate the relationship betwee...

Introduction: Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy of thyroid nodules is minimally invasive and safe. The clinical importance of the thyroid nodule evaluation is primarily related to the need to exclude thyroid cancer. We aimed to investigate the relationship between preoperative FNA cytology and results of thyroidectomy in this study.Materials and Methods: Histopathologic examination reports of 302 patients undergoing thyroidectomy and preoperative FNA c...

Introduction: Hyalinizing trabecular adenomas (HTA) of the thyroid is an unusual disorder. HTA can be present as a thyroid nodule or incidental finding in a thyroidectomy specimen. Most behave as benign neoplasms, but their cytological features can be similar to those of papillary thyroid carcinoma.Case report: A 68 year old woman admitted to our institution with a solitary thyroid nodüle. Her serum free thyroxine (fT4), free triiodothyro...