Giorgio Treglia, Guido Rindi, Vittoria Rufini
Thyroid carcinoma is the most frequent type of endocrine tumour. Most differentiated thyroid cancers (DTCs) have an excellent prognosis if diagnosed early and treated appropriately. Nevertheless, a number of patients with DTCs do not achieve remission after thyroidectomy …
Luigi Bartalena, Maria Laura Tanda, Alessandra Medea, Claudio Marcocci, Aldo Pinchera
Severe Graves’ ophthalmopathy constitutes a complex therapeutic challenge and treatment outcome often is not satisfactory. Established methods of treatment include high-dose glucocorticoids, orbital radiotherapy and orbital decompression. Recently, the use of intravenous glucocorticoids has been shown to provide more favorable results than oral glucocorticoids…
Olga Karapanou, Marinella Tzanela, Marietta Christoforaki, Lida Papastathopoulou, Paraskevi Moutsatsou, Efi Botoula, Stylianos Tsagarakis
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the therapeutic trends and long-term outcome of treatment modalities for acromegaly in our center over a 40-year period. Design: We retrospectively studied 321 acromegalic patients (145 males/176 females) diagnosed and treated from the 1970s until September 2013 …