Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), which includes papillary and follicular cancer, is responsible for 90% of all thyroid cancers (Sherma, 2003; Maseeh et al., 2013). According to the American Thyroid Association guidelines, the initial treatment for DTC consists of total or near-total thyroidectomy and cervical lymph node (LN) dissection with or without radioiodine (RAI) ablation (Cooper et a...

Subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH), also called mild thyroid failure, is diagnosed when peripheral thyroid hormone levels are within normal reference laboratory range but serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels are mildly elevated. This condition occurs in 3% to 8% of the general population. It is more common in women than men, and its prevalence increases with age. Of patients with SCH, 8...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the situation of Bone Mineral Density (BMD), Z score, T score, serum level of corrected and ionized calcium, alkaline phosphatase and 25-hydroxy vitamin D in percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) patients and correlation of these variants with thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) suppression level by levothyroxine. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among the...

OBJECTIVE The article studied the knowledge and practice patterns of primary care providers and internal medicine residents in their initial evaluation of thyroid nodules and determined whether their practice is in accordance with published guidelines by the American Thyroid Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. METHOD A survey was distributed to primary care phys...

RATIONALE Ectopic thyrotropin (TSH)-secreting pituitary adenomas are exceedingly rare. To date, there are only 6 cases reported. Here, we describe an even rarer ectopic TSH-secreting pituitary adenoma (TSH-oma) concomitant with papillary thyroid carcinoma. PATIENT CONCERNS A 27-year-old female was admitted to the hospital in 2002 for neck enlargement and palpitation. Thyroid function test sho...

INTRODUCTION Malignant struma ovarii is a rare ovarian neoplasm composed predominantly of mature thyroid tissue. CASE REPORT A right ovarian tumor was discovered at ultrasound examination in a 20-year-old woman. Complete right ovariectomy was done - histopathological examination revealed papillary thyroid carcinoma arising in struma ovarii (malignant struma ovarii). Patient underwent subseque...

ABSTRACT Background and Aim: Considering the increasing trend of thyroid cancer and increased number of new cases we performed this study to determine the risk factors for thyroid cancer in Kurdistan Province. Materials and Methods: 80 patients and 80 controls were matched and entered into this case-control study from September 2009 to September 2016 in Kurdistan Province. Data were colle...

Abstract Introduction Rifampin has a wide range of drug interactions through increased hepatic microsomal enzyme activity. We are reporting case patient with post-surgical hypothyroidism on stable thyroid hormone replacement therapy who required significantly higher doses levothyroxine after starting rifampin. Case Report Patient is 78-year-old woman history Papillary Thyroid Cancer (PTC) in re...

The levothyroxine suppressive efficacy in benign thyroid nodules treatment is well described in uninodular non-toxic goiter, whereas only few controlled trials enrolled patients with multinodular disease. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the short term effects of levothyroxine treatment in never treated, pre-menopausal women affected by thyroid multinodular disease. Seventy-one pre-m...