Endocrine Abstracts

The study group consists of 159 cases of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (CAT) (age =40.48±15.22 years; F/M=156/3) distributed in 3 groups after the morpho-functional criteria: CAT with goiter – 48.43% cases (F/M=77/0); atrophic CAT – 33.33% cases (F/M=52/1); asymptomatic CAT – 18.24% cases (F/M=27/2). The thyroid ultrasonography allowed the thyroid volume measurement and the evaluation of the parenchyma echogenicity. Most of the cases presented a moderate (...

Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) affects predominantly the adult age (incidence 1/10 000) and it is unusual.The aim of the study: Is to present a rare pathology in a child, which implied interdisciplinary collaboration.Material and method: We present a teenager girl of 16 years old, diagnosed with osteomalacia after a thoracic and pelvis trauma, based on knee and pelvis radiographs (diffuse bone demineralization, tra...