Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Digital pathology is the process of scanning conventional slides and then digitally stitching consecutive images into digital slides that can be viewed, managed, and analyzed on a computer monitor. In this study, we evaluated the area of metastatic foci in cervical lymph node (LN) metastasis in application of digital pathology and prognostic implication for predicting structural recurrence in patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC).Method...

Background: Unlike excellent prognosis of classical papillary thyroid carcinoma (cPTC), certain pathological subtypes of aggressive variants of PTC (AV-PTC) are considered to have poor clinical outcome. However, the evidence of unfavorable outcome of AV-PTC is not clear because previous studies did not control other confounding factors contributed to clinical outcomes.Methods: This retrospective cohort study initially included 4339 patients with cPTC and...