Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) during pregnancy is quite low. There have been a few anecdotal reports of NHL that arises from the thyroid gland.Case Report: A 28-year-old female patient presented with a neck swelling, pain and respiratory distress while she was in the 17th week of her first pregnancy. Subtotal thyroidectomy was performed and combined histological and immunohistochemical analyses led to the diagnosis of diffuse ...

Background and Objective: Smoking increases the risk of Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) in patients with Graves’ disease (GD). Therefore, smoking cessation should be recommended to all patients with GD. This study aimed to investigate whether smoking cessation recommendations were taken into account in patients with GD and whether there was a difference in terms of smoking cessation between those with and without GO.Methods: Smoking status of the case...