Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Angiogenesis plays an important role in the growth and processes of tumors, often indicating neovascularity. However the role of vascularization in thyroid nodules observed with power or color doppler has always been debated. Therefore, most of thyroid nodules sonographic risk classification do not consider vascularization as an important features in predicting the risk of malignancy. In the last years a new vascular imaging technique, Superb Microvascular Imagin...

Objectives: AJCC/TNM staging system provides an estimate of mortality risk in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients and recent evidence showed that ATA risk stratification may improve the definition of this risk. We speculated that the integration of the response to the initial therapy (RIT) could better define the mortality risk.Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 891 consecutive DTC patients followed at the Section of Endocrinology, University...