Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Often parathyroid indicentalomas (PI) in the form macroscopically enlarged single or multiple parathyroid glands are encountered during surgical thyroidectomy. The reported incidence in literature is variable (0.4–4.5%), but we feel its underreported compared to its frequency, as only less than 500 cases were reported thus far. Another enigma about PI is their clinical significance and natural history. In this context, we analysed our own experience and tried ...

Introduction: Granulomatous thyroiditis (GT) is one of the various types of autoimmune thyroiditis. It usually occurs in women of reproductive age in perigestational period. Clinical picture in is predominantly painful goiter with radiating pain to ears with low grade fever lasting for few days, sometimes associated with mild hyper or hypothyroidism. The treatment is symptomatic and supportive with no curative option. There are meagre anecdotal reports of thyroidectomy role fo...

Introduction: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is one of the commonest endocrine disorder. Often, HT is associated with a plethora of autoimmune co-morbidities (AIC) such as vitiligo, arthitides, pernicious anaemia, skin allergy, thrombocytopenia, addison’s disease, type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, eosinophilia etc., The etiology of these AIC in HT is enigmatically idiopathic and hypothesized to be autoimmune in origin. Many studies suggests that thyroid specific antibod...