Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Recommendations on the timing of prophylactic thyroidectomy (PTTE) in patients with familial medullary carcinoma (FMTC) are based on classification of RET mutations into four risk levels according to genotype - phenotype correlations. In clinical practice it is/was not always possible to fulfill the recommended timing of PTTE.Objectives: To study the clinical course of FMTC patients with various RET mutations who were operated with a time del...