Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Thyroid incidentaloma is a common endocrinological disorder. Current literature regarding the risk of thyroid cancer in incidentalomas found in patients with non-thyroid cancer is limited. The aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency of thyroid malignancy in thyroid incidentalomas detected in patients with non-thyroid cancer.Methods: The database of 287 thyroid nodules from 161 patients with a history of non-thyroid cancer fol...

The incidence of thyroid papillary carcinoma in thyroglossal duct cyst is <1%. Regional lymph node metastasis is usually seen in cases who have intrathyroidal tumor. We report a case of thyroid papillary carcinoma arising from thyroglossal duct cyst with lateral lymph node metastasis who have a normal thyroid gland and benign central compartment lymph nodes.Case report: A 38-year-old male patient was admitted with the complaint of swelling in the nec...