Department of Surgery, Katuri Medical College and Hospital, Guntur-5222019, Andhra Pradesh, India. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Krishna river flows over a distance of more than 700 (seven hundred) kms covering three states i.e.; Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Thus the water content ...

We report here a unique case of methimazole (MMI)-induced pancreatitis. To our knowledge, this is the sixth case reported in the literature and the first diagnosed in a patient with toxic multinodular goiter. A 51-year-old Caucasian female with a history of benign multinodular goiter and subclinical hyperthyroidism was started on MMI 10 mg orally daily. Three weeks later, she developed sharp ep...

AIM The aim of this meta-analysis is to assess and validate the feasibility and safety of total thyroidectomy (TT) when compared to bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy (BST) for bilateral multinodular nontoxic goiter (BMNG). MATERIALS AND METHODS PubMed, Web of Knowledge, and Ovid's database were searched for studies published in English language between January 1990 and December 2014. A meta-an...

INTRODUCTION Parathyroid incidentaloma (PTI) designates a nodule discovered incidentally during thyroid sonography, and whose location and aspect suggests an abnormal parathyroid. Our aim was to assess the prevalence of PTI, their functional characteristics and to identify the factors correlated with their presence. PATIENTS AND METHODS We recorded all patients detected with PTI between Janua...

The breast is an unusual site for metastasis from malignant tumors, although it may be the first manifestation of extramammary primary malignancy typically arising in lung, skin (melanoma), ovary, or lymph nodes (lymphoma). Breast thyroid carcinoma extremely rare and take years to develop, as differentiated usually indolent slow-growing metastasizes nodes, lungs, bones. Here, we present case a ...

We report the case of a 60-year-old woman with a multinodular goitre who underwent total thyroidectomy and was found intraoperatively to have a parathyroid ‘incidentaloma’. The surgical approach to the management of patients with incidental parathyroid disease is discussed and a review of the literature is presented.

Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare congenital abnormality in which one thyroid lobe fails to develop. It is frequently diagnosed at the time of assessment for another condition or during evaluation of other thyroid diagnoses. Similar disorders seen with normal thyroid development may present within a hemithyroid remnant. We present a case of an asymptomatic thyroid hemiagenesis and review recommend...

OBJECTIVE The expression of two iodide transporters, the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) and pendrin, was analyzed in thyroid tissues of patients with toxic multinodular goiter (TMNG) and non-toxic multinodular goiter (MNG). METHODS The levels of NIS and pendrin proteins were analyzed in total protein extracts from nodular and non-nodular tissues by Western blot. RESULTS In tissue samples fro...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis (AIT) concomitant with thyroid cancer in multinodular goiter (MNG). CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 61-year-old man treated with amiodarone for 5 years presented with mild sweating. He was found to have AIT simultaneously with thyroid papillary cancer and MNG. Administration of amiodarone was stopped, and he was treated ...