ea0034p387 | Thyroid | SFEBES2014
Varadhan Lakshminarayanan
, Altaf Anney
, Varughese George
, Sankar Sailesh
Aim: Establishing the aetiological diagnosis of hyperthyroidism relies on clinical examination, ultrasound imaging and thyroid antibodies; however there is a wide variation in practice in which of the aforementioned approaches are used. The aim of our study was to assess the reliability of clinical examination of thyroid gland in patients with hyperthyroidism, using ultrasound (US) as the reference.Methods: Case notes and letters of patients of 133 patie...