Endocrine Abstracts

BackgroundResistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) involves an altered tissue response to thyroid hormones. RTH is characterized by increased serum thyroid hormone (TH) levels with nonsuppressed serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. Herein, we report a rare case of RTH with recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).Patient findingsA 38-year-old female patient was admited to outpatient clinic for the ev...

AimNonfunctional adrenal incidentalomas (NFAI’s) are often associated with a high prevalence of insulin resistance (IR). The relationship between IR and thyroid diseases, as well as, thyroid cancer (TC) in patients with NFAI is not yet understood. The aim of this study is to determine the frequency of thyroid disease and TC in NFAI patients and to investigate any possible association of thyroid disease with IR and metabolic disturbances in NFAI pati...