Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The discovery of a thyroid nodule exposes the problem of the possibility of thyroid cancer. The difficulty of management of this situation is the fact that only the histopathological examination can confirm or refute the malignancy. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is used as a diagnostic tool to assess thyroid nodules. The purpose of our study is to correlate the clinical, ultasonographic, the FNA results and final pathology to determine the predictors of malignancy o...

Introduction: Therapeutic education of diabetic patients is an integral part of management care of the disease and a permanent way to empower patients and to promote their self-care. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the knowledge of diabetic patients about their disease.Patients and methods: This prospective study has been conducted during 9 months and included 312 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosed at least 3 months ago. All...