Endocrine Abstracts

A 67–year-old female patient was transferred to our hospital from a nursing home for high capillary glucose levels and foot ulcer considered as diabetic foot infection. Her past medical history could not be obtained because of mental retardation with unknown etiology and absence of relatives.A purulent foot ulcer sized 4×3 cm was found in right heel. She also had deformities in her hands, feet, and her nose. Peripheral neuropathy was also detec...

Objective: Thyroid incidentaloma is a common endocrinological disorder. Current literature regarding the risk of thyroid cancer in incidentalomas found in patients with non-thyroid cancer is limited. The aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency of thyroid malignancy in thyroid incidentalomas detected in patients with non-thyroid cancer.Methods: The database of 287 thyroid nodules from 161 patients with a history of non-thyroid cancer fol...