Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare disease with a poor prognosis. In recent years, two prognostic scoring systems incorporating relevant clinicopathological features of ACC (ENSAT stage, grade, resection status, age at diagnosis, tumour symptoms) have been proposed: the GRAS and S-GRAS scoring systems. The prognostic value of these systems has been demonstrated in large, multicentre studies.Aim: To su mmarize the clinicopathological f...

Introduction: Clinicopathological characterisation ofneuroendocrine neoplasms could provide improved prognostic information even at the time of the diagnosis.Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the clinicopathological features of a large cohort of patients with neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs).Patients and methods: The study included 210 patients (95 men and 115 women) with histologically confirmed and verified neu...