Endocrine Abstracts

MTC represents still a diagnostic challenge in thyroidology. A case is here reported with some misleading signs that was finally solved with a calcitonin assay.A 50 years women was referred for a thyroid nodule incidentally discovered at echography in the right lobe; it appeared round, hypoechoic, without alo sign, well-definite edges, with a diameter of 7 mm. At the first evaluation with echocolordoppler there was no appearance of intralesion vasculariz...

Some authors observed lower thyroid antibodies titers (AbT) in children than in the adult population. The aim of this work was to consider the prevalence of positive results in AbT and elevated TSH levels. We have considered AbT and TSH measurements in a large population. We divided samples in 7 age groups 0–18, 18–20, 20–40, 40–50, 50–60, 60–70 and >70 years old. Cut-off positivity for AbTg and AbTPO was 50 and for TSH was 10 mUI/ml.<p cl...

Autoimmune Thyroid Disease (ATD) is associated with normal thyroid function (type 1) in most cases with variable incidence of functional evolution toward either hypo (type2, A or B if present or not goiter) or hyperthyroidism (type3).To study the evolution of thyroid function in a longitudinal study, along a scale of six years, in relationship to thyroid volume, 128 subjects (80 females and 48 males), aged from 28 to 78 years, were considered, with the f...