Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Quadruple primary malignancies occur with an incidence of <0.1% and <100 cases have been published to our best knowledge. We are presenting a patient with multiple sclerosis and triple thyroid carcinoma, double melanoma and a breast cancer.Case report: Over the course of 4 years we treated a single patient due to stage III (T3, N1a, M0) medullary thyroid carcinoma size 45 mm in the right lobe and two micropapillary carcinomas in the...

Background: The accuracy of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNb) in decisions for surgical management of lymph nodes in differentiated thyroid ccarcinoma (DTC) was demonstarted in a few previous studies.Aim: To determine whether SLN biopsy of first draining node/s in jugulo-carotid chain is accurate technique to select patients with true positive LN for selective modified radical neck dissection (MRND).Patients and methods: We have pe...

Background: Papillary thyroid carcinoma in children and adolescents is rare but it shows extremely aggressive behavior. Gross lymph node metastases and distant metastases are common on first clinical presentation.Patients and methods: Forty five children and adolescents were operated due to PTC. Mean age was 16.6 years (range 7–21). At the time of diagnosis 13% had lung metastases. Total thyroidectomy or completion of thyroidectomy was performed in ...

Background: Thyroid carcinoma in a thyroglossal duct cyst is very rare and surgical management is based on the individual experience.Patients and methods: Twelve cases of primary TDC thyroid carcinoma operated in one Institution during last 25 years. Sistrunk`s procedure was done in all cases followed by dissection of submental and prehyoid lymph nodes and bilateral biopsy of level 3. In the same act 11 of 12 patients underwent total thyroidectomy. In ca...