Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Recently, radioablation has been offered for patients with thyroid microcarcinoma, however some authors favor just follow-up as the prognosis of this disease is excellent. In this study, we compared the long-term follow-up results, for a period of 16 years, in patients with thyroid microcarcinoma in a group of patients with thyroidectomy only and in another both thyrodectomized and radioablated.Methods: Two hundred sixty five patients with a p...

Introduction: Despite the fact that Graves’ disease (GD) almost always presents as a diffuse hyperfunctioning goiter involving both lobes of the thyroid gland, it may rarely reveal at only unilateral lobe with bilobar thyroid gland. We herein present a case of unilateral GD involving the right thyroid lobe of a bilobar gland.Case report: A 42-year-old woman presented with symptoms and signs of hyperthyroidism; thyrotropin (TSH) was undetectable, whi...