Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although calcifications are a relatively common finding on a thyroid ultrasound, present in both benign and malign lesions, osseous metaplasia (OM) is a peculiar discovery, with only a few described cases in literature so far. Common pathophysiological explanations include abnormalities of bone morphogenetic protein family members and basic fibroblast growth factor. Most of the case reports are presenting OM in association with malign lesions, often with papillar...