Endocrine Abstracts

Case history: A 62 years old lady presented with a history of weight loss, sweating, and tremor for 3 months. The diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis was made following biochemical confirmation and she was started on carbimazole 20 mg twice a day. Several weeks later she got admitted with progressive shortness of breath, hoarseness of voice, and a painful neck lump. Examination revealed a firm to hard fixed multinodular goiter with a dominant hard nodule at the left upper pole. There ...