Thyrotoxicosis factitia: role of thyroglobulin

Thyroid Imaging in a Patient with Thyrotoxicosis Factitia

Received 8/6/2007; revised 9/3/2007; accepted 9/4/2007. For correspondence or reprints contact: Bi-Fang Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital. 138 Sheng-Li Road, Tainan 704, Taiwan. Tel: (886)6-2353535 ext. 2483, Fax: (886)6-2766609, E-mail: [email protected] We performed an I thyroid imaging on a 26-year-old man who had the clinical feat...

Dermatitis Factitia

© 2017 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Sir, A 25‐year‐old female presented with multiple round, monomorphic ulcers and scars in various stages of healing for the past 6 months. These were unusually close to one another and most pronounced over the thighs, upper chest, and abdomen with a conspicuous sparing of breasts [Figure 1a and b]. Lesions were comple...

Thyrotoxicosis

" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret SPRING, 194:1. It would not be possible to deal at all fully with the scientific aspects of this subject in an article of reasonable length, and still less would it be possible to give a resume of the enormous literature that has grown up concerning it. My purpose is much simpler ; it is to present a record of personal experience and to offer s...

Thyrotoxicosis.

Thyrotoxicosis is a common disorder, especially in women. The most frequent cause is Graves' disease (autoimmune hyperthyroidism). Other important causes include toxic nodular hyperthyroidism, due to the presence of one or more autonomously functioning thyroid nodules, and thyroiditis caused by inflammation, which results in release of stored hormones. Antithyroid drugs are the usual initial tr...

Role of Sortilin in the Post-endocytic Trafficking of Thyroglobulin