Endocrine Abstracts

The prevalance of incidentally discovered adrenal masses increased in last three decades. The major clinical concern is the risk of malignancy and hormone overproduction but most of them are non-fonctional and benign. Current practices in the management of adrenal incidentalomas reevaluated the follow-up suggestions considering low probability of the transformation of a benign and non-functional adrenal mass to a malignant or functional one. Therefore, in the present study we ...

Diabetic foot is one of the most feared complication of diabetes. The tendons and ligaments’ stiffness and elasticity are known to be altered in diabetic foot. Achilles tendon (AT) plays an important for foot biomechanics and the altered stiffness of AT may have a role in pathogenesis of diabetic foot. Determination of the early changes in AT may help to identify the risky patients for diabetic foot. Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Elastography is an elastography ...