ESPE Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate metabolic syndrome parameters in children with premature adrenarche (PA) during presentation in prepuberty and afterwards in puberty.Methods: 54 (48 femals, six males) patients (mean age 12.5±2.4 years) diagnosed with PA and followed until puberty were included in our study; as the control group 28(22 females, six males) (age, sex, puberty matched) healthy children (mean age 13.5±2.2 years) were taken. CAH was ruled out i...

Background: Gonads containing adrenal rests may enlarge in response to chronic overstimulation by ACTH in diseases with ACTH hypersecretion such as poorly controlled congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), Addison’s disease and Nelson’s syndrome. Testicular adrenal rest tumors (TART) are present in childhood in CAH patients and frequency in adults may be up to 50–95%. Ovarian adrenal rest tumors (ART) are less frequently detected. TART is decribed less in patients...

Background: Although thyroid nodules are rare in children compared to adults, the risk of malignacy is higher. Thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a reliable diagnostic method used in the prediction of malignancy in the evaluation of thyroid nodules together with clinical and ultrasonographic findings.Objective and hypotheses: To compare clinical, ultrasonographic, cytological and histopathological findings in patients who underwent FNA.<p class=...