Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To assess whether the degree of heterogeneity of thyroid nodules defined by their elastographic characteristics is related to the cytological diagnosis and ultrasound classification of risk of malignancy.Material and Methods: Observational, prospective study. 101 thyroid nodules were analysed by quantitative elastographic analysis (shear-wave), measuring the stiffness of the lesion by global elastography and its standard deviation (s.d.</...

Introduction: The aim of this work is the evaluation of usefulness of radioactive seed localization (RSL) for the detection of cervical recurrence of thyroid cancer in order to improve the surgical outcome.Material and method: Six patients with thyroid cancer with cervical recurrences evidenced by ultrasound, cytology/Tg-FNAB were selected for this procedure. A 125I seed was placed in the metastatic lesion using a needle guided by ultrasound. ...