Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Autoimmune thyroiditis is rarely painful. A tender goitre usually indicates viral thyroiditis. Here, we present a case of a persistent painful goitre due to sclerosing-type Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.Case presentation: Our patient is a 27-year-old mother, with no significant past medical history. She was diagnosed with autoimmune hypothyroidism in October 2005 when 4 months post-partum. At diagnosis her anti-TPO titre was 2041 U/ml...

Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2B is a dominantly inherited disorder characterised by mucosal neuromas, medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), phaeochromocytoma, and intestinal ganglioneuromatosis. We report the case of a 34-year-old woman who presented with chronic diarrhoea. She had a longstanding history of gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhoea since the age of 7 and had been investigated extensively for over 20 years at three different centres, but no definitive dia...