BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE One of the dilemmas facing clinicians treating patients with thyroid cancer is the evaluation of postthyroidectomy patients with rising serum thyroglobulin levels and indeterminate or normal findings on neck sonography. In this study, we examine the role of MR imaging in this subgroup of patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed MR images of patients w...

Received 9/19/2004; revised 10/2/2004; accepted 10/6/2004. For correspondence and reprints contact: Wen-Sheng Huang, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, 325 Section 2, Cheng-Kung Road, Neihu, Taipei 114 Taiwan, ROC. Tel: (886)2-287927374, Fax: (886)2-287927217, E-mail: [email protected] A 26-year-old woman who had received a thyroidectomy due to papillary t...

Failure of a primary operation to control renal hyperparathyroidism is usually due to inadequate resection of hyperplastic tissue or previous undetected ectopic parathyroid gland. We describe a patient with recurrent renal hyperparathyroidism, who presented with a subcutaneous neck nodule. A 49-year-old woman had a history of systemic lupus erythematosus, papillary thyroid carcinoma, and end-st...

Objective: Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are the most common causes of hyper and hypothyroidism, respectively. Differentiation of these 2 diseases, if the patient is euthyroid, may sometimes be extremely difficult on the basis of clinical and laboratory findings. The purpose of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of gray scale sonography in differentiat...

introduction acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is the most common malignancy of childhood. patients with all commonly present with easy bruising and infections due to medullary involvement. the extra medullary involvements of all manifests as hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and testicular enlargement. among extramedullary manifestations of the all, thyroid involvement is rare. herein, we ...

Abstract Background Small thyroid nodules (≤ 10 mm) are common findings in ultrasonography. The first purpose of this study was to compare the performance three guidelines diagnosis malignancy for small nodules. second aim find ultrasonographic characteristics potentially associated with risk malignancy. This prospective cross-sectional performed on patients a mm), who were rereferred radiologi...

Introduction
 Thyroid abscess is a serious head and neck infection that may easily be overlooked. The thyroid gland resistant to infections due its rich blood supply, good lymphatic drainage, high iodine content solid capsule. Therefore, rare disease with complications when the diagnosis delayed. In this paper, we present case of who presented fever, fatigue, pain swelling, rapidly deterio...

As with all facets of medicine, the key to uncovering the etiology of an illness lies in performing a careful history and physical examination. Such is also the case when dealing with patients who manifest with hyperthyroidism. Aside from the clinical encounter, physicians have a myriad of diagnostic tools at their disposal. A host of investigations, ranging from a simple blood test to a nuclea...