Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Grave’s disease is a rare disease in children. Treatment options are the same as in adults but remission rate with antithyroid drugs (ATD) appears to be lower in children and more prolonged courses of ATD are recommended. We aimed to evaluate the outcome of ATD treatment and to identify factors associated with remission.Methods: Retrospective study of 36 pediatric patients diagnosed with Grave’s disease at the Pediatric Department...

: We report the case of a 57-year-old female diagnosed with Grave’s disease fifteen years before (TSH <0.001 U/ml; FT4 2.3 ng/dl; FT3 7.2 ng/dl, TSAbs 17 U/l). Persistency of hyperthyroidism despite antithyroid therapy led to total thyroidectomy three years after the diagnosis. Thereafter, thyroid function remained normal under hormonal replacement with levothyroxine. The patient had also been diagnosed with Pernicious Anemia at 47 years of age after investigation for...

Introduction: Metastasis to the thyroid gland is a rare phenomenon and is associated with primary tumors of the kidney, lung, breast, colorectal, and sarcoma. Thyroid metastases account for only 0.4-3.0% of all malignant neoplasms of the thyroid and occur more frequently in patients with goiter, thyroiditis, or nodules than in patients without previous thyroid pathology.Case report: A 57-year-old woman with a history of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (C...

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is a differentiated thyroid carcinoma and is the most common variant. It is more frequent in women and the median age at diagnosis is 45 years. Most PTC are clinically indolent, have a good prognosis and low incidence of distant metastases. The more frequent locals of distant metastases are bone and lung. Brain metastases are very rare and associated with a poor prognosis.Case report: We present a case of a...