Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction and objective: Platelets play an important role in the development of thrombotic events. Increase of mean platelet volume (MPV) may indicate pre-thrombotic conditions as a new cardiovascular marker. Larger platelets have been reported to be metabolically more active than smaller ones. Our aim of present study is to evaluate MPV levels in patients with papillary thyroid cancer.Materials and methods: Forty-seven patients with newly diagnosis m...