Endocrine Abstracts

It is known that thyroid pathology is generally more frequently found in women than in men. The somatotroph axis stimulates skeleton growth, but also the development of smooth tissues, including the thyroid gland. We investigated the effect of chronic GH excess upon ultrasound-evaluated (7.5 MHz linear probe) thyroid gland morphology of 74 patients (40 women şi 34 men) diagnosed with acromegaly. When compared to mean thyroid volume of age- and sex-matched non-acromegali...