Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal masses are among the most prevalent human tumors and are frequently detected unexpectedly by imaging studies performed for reasons unrelated to suspect of adrenal diseases.Subclinical hypercortisolism (SH) is the most frequent endocrine dysfunction detected in patients with adrenal incidentalomas (AI), accounting from five to 20% of all cases depending on inclusion criteria. one mg overnight dexamethasone suppression test (one mg DST) should be t...

Background: Real-time elastography (RTE) was reported to improve the diagnostic accuracy of B-mode ultrasound (US) examination of thyroid nodules but the results on selected series of patients are still controversial.Aim of the study: To blindly evaluate on a consecutive series of solid thyroid nodules, devoid of confounding factors, the diagnostic accuracy of RTE and to compare it with the traditional B-mode features.Materials and...