Endocrine Abstracts

The value of patient-reported outcomes in treatment efficacy assessment of thyroid disorders is of great importance. Recently, a new tool, Comprehensive Symptom Profile (CSP-ThSF22), has been developed to assess symptoms specific for patients with nontoxic goiters. We aimed to test practicability and sensitivity of CSP-ThSF22 in patients with euthyroid goiter undergoing thyroidectomy. A total of 78 patients with uninodular/multinodular euthyroid goiter were enrolled in this st...

The value of patient-reported outcomes in treatment efficacy assessment of thyroid disorders is of great importance. Recently, a new tool, Comprehensive Symptom Profile (CSP-ThHyperSF27), has been developed to assess symptoms specific for patients with toxic goiters. We aimed to test practicability and sensitivity of CSP-ThHyperSF27 in patients with diffuse/ multinodular toxic goiter undergoing thyroidectomy. A total of 42 patients with diffuse/multinodular toxic goiter were e...

Background: Surgery of the pituitary gland is increasingly being performed through an endoscopic approach. We report the results of the first 26 patients after transition from microsurgery to endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery at our institution.Methods: Medical records of 26 consecutive patients (13 females) with a median age of 59 years who underwent endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery by a single surgeon from 2008 to 2010 and had a follow-up of at leas...