Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Serum thyroglobulin (Tg) is a reliable tumor marker in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). Distant metastases of DTC, particularly in the lung, normally presents with higher levels of Tg, which is useful to follow the disease evolution. We describe a patient with DTC with lung metastases, with undetectable Tg and Tg-antibodies (TgAb).Clinical case: A 52-year-old woman underwent a subtotal thyroidectomy in 1993 because of a g...

Introduction: Lithium therapy is commonly used in bipolar disorder treatment. Alongside the increasing prevalence of goiter and hypothyroidism, the sustaining use of lithium therapy is associated with several metabolic disorders, such as hypercalcemia and hyperparathyroidism (HPT).Case report: A 64-year-old woman with history of bipolar disorder treated with lithium for several years was referred to our department for evaluation of recurrent hypercalcemi...

Case report: 66 year old male with a neck growing mass performed an ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration biopsy which was suspicious for papillary carcinoma. The patient was submitted to total thyroidectomy and central and left lateral compartments lymph node dissection. The histological report showed a follicular carcinoma of 9 cm, with multiple lymphovascular invasions and skeletal muscle invasion. There was a focally positive surgical margin and resected lymph nodes h...

The thyroid pathology is an area of special interest in our department. Hyperthyroidism represents 3.4% of the 8144 patients followed.The aim of this study is to characterize the therapeutic approach in patients with Grave’s disease (GD) and toxic nodular disease (TND).Retrospective study of 217 patients diagnosed with GD and TND, evaluated according parameters of therapeutic option, efficacy, relapse rate and associated compl...