Endocrine Abstracts

IntroductionThyrotoxicosis due to functioning metastases in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is exceedingly rare. The mechanism remains unknown despite several hypotheses. We report on a case of transient thyrotoxicosis due to functioning bone metastasis of follicular thyroid carcinoma.Case reportWe present a case of female patient of 68-years-old diagnosed with follicular thyroid carcinoma revealed by a l...

IntroductionRadioiodine I-131 (RAI) therapy of Graves’ Disease (GD) affects biological thyroid function, clinical signs of hyperthyroidism (SCH), but also the mass of the thyroid (MT). The aim of our study is to assess the effect of RAI on GD and TM according to biological thyroid function after 6 and 12 months.MethodsThis is a prospective study of 86 patients (mean age 43 ± 11, sex ratio 2.07) refe...

IntroductionThe association between parathyroid and thyroid diseases is not uncommon; however concurrent presence of parathyroid adenoma and thyroid cancer is rare (1). As a natural consequence, preoperative imaging studies for diagnosis and localization of parathyroid adenomas may result with the detection of thyroid incidentalomas and most of these thyroid nodules should be evaluated by fine-needle aspiration biopsy before parathyroid surgery (1). We h...

IntroductionSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus that caused a global pandemic in 2020. The virus has infected more than 100 million people worldwide and the pandemic is still spreading. It can affect practically all organs. Data on the impact of SARSCoV-2 on the thyroid gland are very scarce. Two patients with Graves’ disease (GD) and COVID-19 have been recently published(1). We present a case GD occur...