Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence, cell origin, histopathologic features and prognosis of papillary and medullary carcinoma are considered to be completely different. Simultaneous occurrence of medullary and papillary thyroid carcinoma in the same patient is rare. Here, we present a patient with synchronous medullary thyroid carcinoma and papillary microcarcinoma occurring in a thyroid with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis.Case: A 47 years old woman with no his...

Objective: Thyroid diseases are reported to be in 22–70% of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) patients in different studies. Thyroid pathology is detected during neck exploration in some of these patients. In this study we aimed to investigate thyroid pathology in patients operated for PHPT in our clinic.Method: About 32 PHPT patients were included in the study. Patients were evaluated with thyroid function tests, antithyroglobulin antibody, antith...