Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In 2004, the multidisciplinary thyroid nodule committee of our centre adopted the cytological classification from the British Thyroid Association for reporting fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) results and agreed about its proper management: Thy1, inadequate sample, repeat FNAB. Thy2, benign; follow up, repeat FNAB if nodule growth; Thy3 indeterminate or follicular lesions; surgery or repeat FNAB at 6 months if low clinical, sonographic or cytologyc suspicious...

Introduction: A modification of the cytological classification from the ‘British Thyroid Association – Royal College of Physicians’ has been adapted for reporting fine-needle-puncture (FNP) cytology results since 2004 (Thy score). Five diagnostic categories have been agreed by our multidisciplinary committee: Thy1, inadequate sample; Thy2, benign; Thy3 indeterminate; Thy4, suspicious; Thy5, malignant.Aim: Evaluate the correlation between c...

Introduction: The available questionnaires for the detection of hypoglycemia are designed for patients with type 1 Diabetes (T1DM), and do not take into account some characteristics of patients with type 2 Diabetes (T2DM). For instance most of T2DM patients do not perform capillary blood glucose self-monitoring as part of their daily treatment and hypoglycemia might be underestimated. Nevertheless, hypoglycemia can have a negative impact on T2DM patients, in terms of increasin...

Background: The Ectopic ACTH Syndromes (EAS) often associated with severe hypercortisolism are really a challenge.Case presentation: We report the case of a 48-year-old woman, newly diagnosed with hypertension, hypokalemia despite renin-angiotensin blockers intake, and complaints of intense fatigue, muscular weakness, and easy bruising, which worse in four months. EAS was biochemically confirmed, but two urinary catecholamines collection were negatives d...