Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyalinizing trabecular tumor is a very rare neoplasm of thyroid and can be misinterpreted as papillary or medullary cancer in fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB).Case report: Multinodular goiter was detected in a 65 years old woman using metformin and L-thyroxine for impaired blood glucose and Hashimoto thyroiditis, respectively. FNAB was performed in two nodules and reported as suspicious for malignancy and benign. She underwent total thy...

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...

Primary thyroid lymphoma is an uncommon malignancy; it accounts for <2% of all extranodal lymphomas and <5% of all thyroid malignancies.Case report: A 52-year-old male patient who was known to have a nodule in his thyroid gland for many years presented with instantaneous enlargement of his existing nodule and with appearance of ipsilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. On thyroid ultrasonography, a giant nodule of 38.4×31.6×45.5 mm size, an...

Introduction: Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma (FVPTC) is the most common variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) after classical PTC (CPTC). In this study, we aimed to compare functional status, ultrasonographical features, cytological results and histopathological characteristics of patients with CPTC and FVPTC.Methods: Patients diagnosed with CPTC and FVPTC in our clinic were reviewed retrospectively. Data of preoperative thyroid fu...

Objective: Thyroid diseases are reported to be in 22–70% of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) patients in different studies. Thyroid pathology is detected during neck exploration in some of these patients. In this study we aimed to investigate thyroid pathology in patients operated for PHPT in our clinic.Method: About 32 PHPT patients were included in the study. Patients were evaluated with thyroid function tests, antithyroglobulin antibody, antith...

Objective: Ultrasound (US) guided percutaneous laser ablation (PLA) is a new procedure utilized to decrease nodule volume in symptomatic thyroid nodules, to provide euthyroidism in autonomous hyperfunctioning thyroid nodules, and to decrease compressive symptoms palliatively in malignant nodules. Standard treatment protocol in symptomatic benign hypoactive thyroid nodules is surgery, if needed LT4 suppression, and radioiodine treatment in certain applications. We applied PLA t...

Aim: In this study, we aimed to determine the strain index (SI) as well as the ES scoring of thyroid nodules, and establish the role for these parameters in the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules using histopathological analysis as a reference standart.Materials and method: Real-time ES in transverse axis (TA) and longitudinal exis (LA) was performed in 391 nodules of 292 patients. ES scoring was made for all the nodules. SI in TA and LA was calcu...

Aim: We aimed to determine strain index (SI) values using Elastosonography (ES) in histopathologically confirmed differentiated thyroid carcinomas (DTC) and investigate the role of these values for the differential diagnosis of nodular thyroid diseases.Material and method: ES in longitudinal axis (LA) was performed in 391 thyroid nodules of 292 patients. ES scores of thyroid nodules were determined and SI in LA for each nodule was calculated. The finding...

Objective: Percutaneous laser ablation (PLA) is a new procedure utilized to decrease nodule volume in symptomatic thyroid nodules, to provide euthyroidism in autonomous hyperfunctioning nodules, and to decrease compressive symptoms palliatively in malignant nodules. Standard treatment in autonomous thyroid nodules is radioiodine and surgery. In this report, we aimed to present this case to demonstrate changes in nodule histopathology, which was undergone thyroidectomy two year...