Endocrine Abstracts

MTC represents still a diagnostic challenge in thyroidology. A case is here reported with some misleading signs that was finally solved with a calcitonin assay.A 50 years women was referred for a thyroid nodule incidentally discovered at echography in the right lobe; it appeared round, hypoechoic, without alo sign, well-definite edges, with a diameter of 7 mm. At the first evaluation with echocolordoppler there was no appearance of intralesion vasculariz...

The role of TSH in the pathogenesis of thyroid nodule (TN) is controversial.We have evaluated the prevalence of TN in a group of 800 subjects with and without autoimmune thyroiditis (AT). The prevalence of TN, the number and volume of nodules was evaluated in relation with TSH and antithyroid antibodies titles.The subjects were of both sex, aged between 20 and 80 years and were recruited in a random manner, in the context of an epi...

Autoimmune Thyroid Disease (ATD) is associated with normal thyroid function (type 1) in most cases with variable incidence of functional evolution toward either hypo (type2, A or B if present or not goiter) or hyperthyroidism (type3).To study the evolution of thyroid function in a longitudinal study, along a scale of six years, in relationship to thyroid volume, 128 subjects (80 females and 48 males), aged from 28 to 78 years, were considered, with the f...

Aspergillus infection (A)is often recognized in severely immunocompromised patients.Although involvement of the thyroid gland is reported for 9–15% of patients with disseminated disease, a localized clinical picture it’s not reported.Here, we present a case of Aspergillus in a LES young patient (15-year-old girl), who underwent to a strong immunosuppressive regimen (high doses of corticosteroids, endoxan and...