Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence, cell origin, histopathologic features and prognosis of papillary and medullary carcinoma are considered to be completely different. Simultaneous occurrence of medullary and papillary thyroid carcinoma in the same patient is rare. Here, we present a patient with synchronous medullary thyroid carcinoma and papillary microcarcinoma occurring in a thyroid with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis.Case: A 47 years old woman with no his...

Objective: Pendred syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by sensorineural hearing loss, goiter, and a partial defect in iodide organification. Pendred syndrome is caused by mutations in the SLC26A4 gene. Here, we report a patient with pendred syndrome and papillary thyroid carcinoma.Case report: A 19-year-old man admitted to our clinic with swelling in his neck. Congenital hypothyroidism was diagnosed at the age of one. His twin broth...