Endocrine Abstracts

Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) in general has a good prognosis when ist diagnosed early. Late stage disease with bone metastasis may cause severe complications, increases mortality rate, decreases the quality of life, and shortens the patients’ survival. The treatment is still controversial. Surgery or radioiodine therapy alone is usually unsatisfactory.Case presentation: We report a case of a 40-year-old female presented, in August 2012, with ...

Introduction: Although co-association between thyroid disease and parathyroid disease is rare, co-existence between parathyroid adenomas (HPPs) and papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) is rare. Perhaps this can be explained by the different embryological origins of the thyroids cells with the parathyroid cells.Objectives: To report a case with parathyroid adenoma and multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma.Case presentation: A 62-year...