We performed a study to investigate the status of thyroid nodules and thyroid functions in Chinese breast cancer women. The clinical data of female patients with breast cancer or benign breast diseases and normal populace were evaluated. The thyroxine(T4) level in initially diagnosed breast cancer patients were significantly higher than those in benign breast diseases patients (7.68±1.51 vs 7.2...

Recent evidence has emphasized the importance of apoptosis in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis and the pathogenesis of malignant and immune diseases. Autoimmune thyroid diseases such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Graves' disease, as well as other autoimmune endocrine diseases, have been associated with dysregulation of apoptotic signaling pathways. In particular, dysfunction of the Fas ap...

OBJECTIVE In order to avoid the misdiagnosis of thyroid diseases, we need to discuss the clinical features and diagnostic methods of cervical esophageal cancer and Zenker's diverticulum. METHODS The clinical and laboratory data of seven cases were reviewed retrospectively, and in all cases, esophageal-related diseases were misdiagnosed as thyroid diseases preoperatively. Among them, two cases...

Prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis is increased in patients with celiac disease and vice versa. Both diseases are frequent autoimmune diseases sharing multiple aspects lodging at the two ends of the gut-thyroid axis where the cross-talks’ pathways are still unrivalled. Many authors recommend screening patients with thyroid autoimmunity for celiac disease associated antibodies. However, routin...

The effects of physiological and environmental factors, of thyroid and non-thyroid diseases, and of drugs on the serum protein-bound iodine are described and discussed.

AIM To present the clinical and laboratory features of patients with dermatologic disorders associated with thyroid diseases, diagnostic criteria, type of administered treatment and its effectiveness. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study is a retrospective study based on the medical records of patients with thyroid diseases admitted to the Dermato venereology Clinic of the Iasi "Sf. Spiridon" Univ...

Subclinical hyperthyroidism and subclinical hypothyroidism are characterized by abnormal thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) with normal free thyroxine. Subclinical thyroid diseases, to date, have received less attention compared with other thyroid diseases since they are asymptomatic. This study aimed to verify the association between subclinical thyroid diseases and cardiovascular diseases (CVD...

Thyroid tuberculosis is a very rare condition with rate of 0.1-1.15% even in countries high prevalence tuberculosis. In this presentation, we evaluated the management patient preoperative diagnosis benign tissue and pre-diagnosis multinodular goiter compression symptoms. After thyroidectomy our who had no special history due to detection Langerhans giant cell caseified granuloma-thyroid tubercu...

OBJECTIVE the aim of present study is to determine possible contributions of INF-gamma inducible chemochine CXCL-10 in the thyroid color doppler ultrasound (CDU) parameters typical of autoimmune disorders. METHODS we studied a consecutive series of 25 patients with autoimmune thyroid disease and 10 healthy control subjects. All subjects underwent a thyroid CDU examination by the same investig...

Introduction localized thyroid enlargement with rest of the thyroid apparently normal is clinically defined as solitary nodule of thyroid. STN is seen in 4-6% of the adult individuals. Fortunately the likelihood that a single thyroid nodule is malignant is approximately 5%. Nodules decreasing in size have negligible risk of cancer and no treatment is required. However, enlarging solid nodules h...