Endocrine Abstracts

Most common causes of primary hypothyreosis are destruction of thyroidal parenchyma by the autoimmune antibodies, interventions on the gland (surgery, radioiodine treatment) and external actinotherapy (hematologic and ENT malignancies). Drug induced thyroidal impairment is well-known too (amiodarone, lithium, interferon). Our case demostrates the primary hypothyreosis caused by cobalt. The source was Co-Cr hip prostehis after its rupture (PHACT). A 55 old man was reffered to e...