Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid lymphoma accounts for less than 5% of thyroid malignancies. The aim of this study was to analyze the particularities of 9 patients (7 females and 2 males, aged 42 to 76 years) diagnosed with thyroid lymphoma, representing 2.45% of 340 cases of thyroid malignancies. Patients were assessed by ultrasound examination (7 cases), fine needle biopsy (FNB) (8 cases), lymph node biopsy (2 cases), and histological examination after surgery (7 cases). Clinically, 6 cases presente...

Background: Interpretation of thyroid function tests by means of biological variation (BV) data is essential to identify significant changes between serial measurements at an individual level. Latest BV data on thyroid parameters in adults included in the EFLM Biological Variation Database have been published in 2008.Objectives: We aimed at determining the BV of four thyroid function test (thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyrox...