Endocrine Abstracts

Study for morphological and hormonal changes in the parathyroid glands in 35 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism was carried out. Post-mortem material (five bodies) used to control. All patients had primary hyperparathyroidism and elevated levels of parathyroid hormone and ionized calcium in serum. Morphometric study evaluated the cellular structure (chief and oxyphil cells) and calculated the ratio of the basic elements of parathyroid cells (nucleus, cytoplasm) and stro...

The results of Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound before and after operations have evaluated at the 207 patients with pathology of the thyroid gland. Comparative assessment made between ultrasound at out-patient phase and Surgeon-Performed by ultrasound. Ultrasound at the outpatient stage in the screening mode does not provide a sufficient level of diagnostics. Causes of errors at this stage are a short time of the inspection, insufficient expertise, wrong interpretation of the imag...