Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Pendred syndrome, defined as the constellation of goiter, sensori-neural hearing loss and positive Perchlorate discharge test, is the most frequent cause of congenital deafness. Newly introduced diagnostic approaches to the disease are rather expensive and complicated, we evaluated the value of MRI as the sole, or adjunctive diagnostic approach, and compared it with the traditional ones.Methods: Presuming the classic triad as the gold standard...