Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thymic hyperplasia is a rare manifestation of Graves disease. In this report, we describe a female with Graves’ disease and a neck mass that was associated with thymic hyperplasia.Case report: A 28-year-old woman was referred to our division for the evaluation of palpitations. Thyroid function tests were associated with thyrotoxicosis. Thyroid receptor antibody (TRAb) was found to be 22.3 U/l (positive: >14 U/l). Sonography showed ...

Background: Macrofollicular variant (MV) is a rarely seen variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). We herein present clinical characteristics of four patients carrying this variant of PTC. Case 1: 62-year-old female patient underwent total thyroidectomy (TT) due to euthyroid multinodular goiter (MNG) with a cytology of ‘indeterminate nodule’. The pathology revealed ‘papillary thyroid microcarcinoma MV with a diameter of 8×6 mm, without capsule or lymph...

Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare anomaly characterized with the absence of one thyroid lobe due to a failure in embryologic development of the thyroid gland. This anomaly is more frequent in women. It usually affects left side of the thyroid. Isthmus may be detected in half of the cases. Thyroid hemiagenesis is usually diagnosed after thyroid imaging due to other disorders, which might be related or unrelated to the thyroid gland. In this paper, we report clinical features of tw...