Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid nodules are discovered by ultrasound (US) in a large percentage of population. In most cases they are benign and asymptomatic. When to perform or not a fine-needle-aspiration (FNA) is still matter of debate. Aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of a easy-to-use US classification, based on three US classes.Methods: We prospectively evaluated US features of 1118 thyroid nodules, allocating each nodule in one of three class...

Hyper- and hypo-thyroidism are considered as clinical conditions of sleep alterations. At present, however, these clinical reports have never been confirmed by studies providing a structured description of subjective and objective sleep quantity and quality. To this aim, we enrolled 15 patients with naïve overt hyperthyroidism (HYPER), 9 with naïve overt primary hypothyroidism (HYPO) and 15 healthy age-, sex- and BMI-matched control subjects (CS). Clinical conditions...