Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Recent reports have mentioned rising incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) detected before and after thyroidec-tomy (Tx) for hyperthyroidism but “hyperfunctioning” TC is however a rare entity.Patients & Methods: Among a personal series of 464 patients which underwent Tx including 147 (33.6%) cases of thyroto-xicosis and 72 (13.6%) cases of TC, we founded 10 patients with hyperthyroidism and nodular or microscopic TC but only one case...

Background: Concomitent occurrence of primary (PHPt) or renal (RHPt) hyperparathyroidism and papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMc) is rarely described in literature.Patients and methods: Between 1986 and 2010 sixtythree subjects undewent operations for PHTp (n=20) or RHTp (n=43) in our clinic. In three cases (4.7%) a synchronous PTMc was intraoperatively discovered.Results: First case, female – 56 years old pre...