Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is inconclusive in up to 20% of patients with solitary
thyroid nodules. In these cases, hemithyroidectomy is necessary, but only 20% of the nodules …

Clinical and biochemical findings in 13 patients (11 women and 2 men) with macronodular
adrenocortical hyperplasia (MNH; nodule size, >0.5 to 5.3 cm) were compared withthose of …

Objective Transsphenoidal pituitary surgery (TS) is the primary treatment of choice for
patients with acromegaly. Macroadenomas (>1 cm) are more difficult to resect than …

In GH-deficient adults, rhGH has pronounced effects on total body water, fat free mass, and
fat mass. Recently, we observed a gender difference in IGF-I responsivity to rhGH that was …

For differentiated, nonmedullarythyroid carcinoma, postsurgical ablationof thyroid remnantsand
treatmentof residualtumor and metastaseswith 1311is a potentiallycurativetherapy. The …

Since 1975, 10 families with the multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)-2A syndrome and five
with the MEN-2B syndrome, making a total of 101 patients, have been identified in The …

In 3 of 6 patients with pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease, a paradoxical increase of plasma
cortisol was observed both after LRH (δmax, 13.9 ± 3.7 μg/100 ml; 113 ± 52%) and TRH (…

The mean (±SEM) zero time serum GH levels in a group of tall girls (3.5 ±0.6 ng/ml) and tall
boys (4.1 ±1.2 ng/ ml) did not differ significantly from the mean value (4.3 ± 2.5 ng/ml) in a …

The ACTH and cortisol responses to 100 μg ovine corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)
in 19 consecutive patients with Cushing's disease were compared with those in 13 normal …

A major problem in the androgen treatment of escessive height in boys is acceleration of
growth velocity especially in the early stages of therapy. Oestrogen treatment in tall girls, in …