OBJECTIVE To determine clinical manifestation and mode of treatment of Graves' disease at King Khalid University Hospital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHODS A retrospective study of all cases of Graves' disease diagnosed at the hospital in the period between January 1995 and December 2004, who received a minimum of two years treatment were included in the study. RESULTS A total of 194 patients w...

BACKGROUND Hypothyroidism can usually be treated effectively by oral levothyroxine supplementation. There are, however, some rare circumstances, when oral levothyroxine application is not sufficient, for example malabsorption, interactions with food or other medications, or various gastrointestinal diseases. CASE REPORT We present a 42 year old woman with refractory and severe symptomatic hyp...

PURPOSE This study was performed to analyze the surgical pathology results of the "atypia of undetermined significance" (AUS) category from thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA) and to describe the characteristics to distinguish a malignant from a benign nodule. METHODS A retrospective analysis was done on 116 patients who underwent thyroid surgery from December 2008 to December 2012, followin...

Objective: To determine the frequency of post-operative asymptomatic hypocalcaemia in patients with total and subtotal thyroidectomy. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Department Surgery, Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan. Period: 1st July 2021 to 30th April 2022. Material & Methods: One hundred Sixteen post thyroidectomy male female age 18-50 years were included study using...

Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is an uncommon mesenchymal neoplasm that arises primarily from the pleura, but recognized also in other tissues. SFT in the thyroid gland is extremely rare. Here we presented the second reported SFT arising in an intrathoracic goiter. The88-year-old woman was referred with a huge goiter involving upper mediastinum accompanied by airway obstruction and tracheostomy. ...

Of 330 patients given lithium for recurrent manic-depressive disorder 12 developed goitre after treatment periods of five months to two years. All the patients remained clinically euthyroid. Pressure symptoms necessitated subtotal thyroidectomy in two patients. In 9 out of 10 patients with goitre, and in two out of seven without goitre study with radioactive iodine showed abnormal findings in i...

within hours after treatment in our patient vs 4 weeks until onset and several days until remission with treatment in theirs. The imaging findings were unremarkable in our patient, whereas several findings, including downward displacement of the brainstem, were identified in their patient. Based on the findings in these cases, we conclude that (i) psychiatric symptoms can be associated with CSF...

Papillary carcinoma of thyroid is an uncommon malignancy among young children. Its biological behaviour and prognosis is different from that of adults. We present a case report of a 16 years old child presented with swelling in midline of neck. On fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAC) papillary carcinoma of thyroid was detected and the patient underwent subtotal thyroidectomy followed by radioio...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the hemostatic effects and safety of thyroidectomy performed using the LigaSure vessel-sealing device (Valleylab, Boulder, Colorado) or the conventional vessel ligation. DATA SOURCES The MEDLINE, EMBASE, Elsevier, SpringerLink, Ovid, and Cochrane Library electronic databases as well as the LigaSure manufacturer's Web site were searched for studies published between 1996 ...

as well as benign and nialignant neopla.sms develop ill thyroid glands of Irlice and rats in which, for prolonged periods, a state of thyroxine deficiency has been estab lished by any one of the following means : the feeding of a low-iodine diet (1, 2) ; the administration of anti-thyroid substances (5, 15, 25) ; irradiation of the gland by 131J, astatine (211At), or X-rays (7, 12, 14, 19) ; an...