Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid abscess is a rare condition because of the thyroid gland anatomical and biochemical nature. We report a rare case of a rapidly developed thyroid abscess in the background of follicular thyroid nodule.A 77 years old lady admitted for elective right thyroidectomy. She had a history of goiter with normal TFTs. FNA cytology revealed Thy3, Hurthle cell neoplasia. The pre-operation CT scan showed right thyroid large nodule with heterogonous enhancement...

Several preparations of thyroxine are available nowadays but is a great challenge for every clinician when the oral and intramuscular administration is failing and has to consider long term intravenous administration. This is a 42 years old lady who had a total thyroidectomy for Graves thyrotoxicosis. She commenced on multiple oral preparations of thyroxine and liothyroxine with no biochemical response. This is not a case of pseudomalabsorption as oral absorption studies of hi...