Percutaneous ultrasound-guided Radiofrequencyablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive treatment that has been widely used as an alternative to surgery in the care of patients with malignant tumors of the liver, renal cell carcinoma, and other tumors. Recently, RFA is an alternative treatment modality for benign thyroid nodules instead of surgery, mainly for the cosmetic reasons, and limited cases...

INTRODUCTION In this report, we describe a rare case of papillary thyroid carcinoma with adrenocortical carcinoma without excess hormone production. CASE PRESENTATION A 40-year-old Turkish man was admitted to our institution with a large left adrenal mass that was identified during the work-up for shortness of breath. The patient did not have specific signs and symptoms of hormone excess. The...

Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary disorder. Here in, we report two patients with RTH in whom differentiated thyroid cancer was diagnosed. Two patients were admitted to our clinic and their laboratory results were elevated thyroid hormone levels with unsuppressed TSH. We considered this situation thyroid hormone resistance in the light of laboratory and ...

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, accounting for 1% of all malignant tumors in the USA (Sherman, 2003) and 5.9% in one district of Wenzhou (a coastal city in Southeast China, with a incidence of 21/100,000) (Zheng and Zhang, 2007). The incidence of papillary thyroid carcinoma, which is the most common histologic type of thyroid malignancy, is increasing worldwide (Davies a...