Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Riedel’s thyroiditis (RT) is a rare thyroid disease. Clinical and citological differential diagnosis with thyroid malignancy is difficult pre-operatively and often only pathological report may confirm the diagnosis.Methods: We report a case of a 72-year-old Italian woman with a known history of goiter, which showed a rapid increase in size at ultrasound check, suggesting malignancy. Based on non-diagnostic cytology (Thy 1), a total thyro...