Endocrine Abstracts

Pregnancy in acromegalic patients is an infrequent event, but with earlier diagnosis and advanced surgical/medical management, more affected women get pregnant.The use of Somatostatin analogues (SSA) during pregnancy seems safe, but there are few reported pregnancies under this treatment.We report two acromegalic patients treated with SSA that became pregnant.Case 1: Thirty-three year old woman diagnosed with...

Introduction: Several recent studies have reported an increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer during the last decades. The delineation between low-risk and high-risk tumor size is not well defined. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the primary tumor size of differentiated thyroid cancer and clinicopathologic data.Methods: We have analysed all records of all patients submitted to thyroidectomy at our hospital between 2...