ipoadenoma, thyrolipoma, or adenolipoma is an exceedngly rare benign lesion formed by fat and thyroid tissue.1--3 ts origin is unknown; a number of authors explain it as n abnormality arising during thyroid encapsulation or from broblast metaplasia following hypoxia.3--5 The distinction etween thyroid and parathyroid lipoadenoma is subtle and equires confirmation with a positive thyroglobulin t...

Thyroid nodules can be classified into benign and malignant tumors. However, distinguishing between these two types of tumors can be challenging in clinics. Since malignant nodules require surgical intervention whereas asymptomatic benign tumors do not, there is an urgent need for new techniques that enable accurate diagnosis of malignant thyroid nodules. Here, we used (1)H NMR spectroscopy cou...

Thyroid lesion is strongly associated with recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. It is because of the close anatomical relationship between the gland on the trachea and the nerve which lies in the tracheoesophageal groove. The recurrent laryngeal nerve can be affected either from the thyroid disease itself or as the complication of thyroidectomy. However, benign thyroid lesion rarely causes recurren...

OBJECTIVE Neck nodular lesions may derive from several different tissues, often mimicking thyroid tumor in the preoperative examination. METHODS We described three patients admitted in 2012 to the Department of Endocrine Surgery in Wrocław with nodular lesion in the neck area mimicking tumor of the thyroid gland. RESULTS In the first patient with a tumor in projection on the isthmus and the...

introduction struma ovarii is an ovarian teratoma, represented in more than 50% by thyroid tissue. five percent of struma ovarii cases have been proven to be malignant and, as in the thyroid gland, papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common histotype arising in struma ovarii. because of the unusual occurrence of this tumor, its management and follow-up after pelvic surgery is still controve...

background: there are inter-observer disagreements between papillary thyroid carcinoma (ptc) with other follicular lesions of thyroid in aspect of diagnosis. cd56 is present on follicular epithelial cells of the normal thyroid. we evaluated the diagnostic value of cd56 expression in ptc, follicular thyroid lesions, and follicular thyroid neoplasms. materials and methods: seventythree cases diag...

UNLABELLED The dose-response relationship in a fixed-activity approach generally applied in the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer was assessed using (124)I PET/CT. METHODS Pretherapeutic (124)I PET/CT images of 47 patients scheduled for radioiodine therapy were retrospectively analyzed. (124)I PET/CT images were acquired 24 and 96 h after oral administration of approximately 28 MBq o...

BACKGROUND When a neuropsychiatric symptom due to encephalopathy develops in a patient with anti-thyroid antibodies, especially when the symptom is steroid-responsive, Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) needs to be included in the differential diagnosis of the patient. Although HE is an elusive disease, it is thought to cause various clinical presentations including seizures, myoclonus, and epilep...

INTRODUCTION Thyroid carcinoma initially presents with clinical symptoms due to metastatic lesions in less than 5% of cases. Spinal cord compression from an epidural metastatic lesion as a first symptom is extremely rare. One would expect such a presentation to occur much later in the course of the disease. METHODS We are presenting a case report of a follicular thyroid carcinoma that present...

AIM The finding of a neck nodular lesion provides strong suspicion of primary thyroid malignancy. Direct extension into the thyroid parenchyma of carcinomas arising from pharynx, larynx, trachea or esophagus, nervous structures has been also observed in the minority of cases. The intent of our study is to present and discuss rare conditions presenting asymptomatic neck masses, with particular e...