Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Differentiated thyroid cancer is one of the most common endocrine malignancies. The most common thyroid cancer in adolescence is PTC. It presents with a high rate of loco regional ganglionic metastasis. Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with an incidence, in Europe, estimated around 2.2–2.7 per 100 000 cases per year. In front of each adolescent case, with concomitant thyroid and lymph nodes, the main question that arises is the pre...

Multiple endocrine neoplasia 2A (MEN2A), an autosomal dominant genetic syndrome caused by germline mutation in RET proto-oncogene, associates medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), pheochromocytoma (PHEO) and primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT). Thyroid hemiagenesis (TH), the absence of one lobe, is a rare congenital abnormality (300 cases are reported in literature). Most cases of TH are diagnosed when patients present a lesion in the functioning lobe. TH was observed among members...