objective: diabetes mellitus and thyroid disease are the two common endocrinopathies seen in adult population. studies to evaluate thyroid disorders in patients with type 2 diabetes are lacking. the aim of this study was to compare prevalence of thyroid dysfunction and autoim-munity in type 2 diabetic patients with age and sex matched non-diabetic control group. material and methods: among pati...

Background: Much research has widely been conducted into thyroid hormones levels following radiotherapy for breast cancer. Consequently, in this study, we evaluated to relate the rate of thyroid hormones levels with the dose distribution among breast cancer patients.Material and Methods: Thirty patients were treated with 4-field breast cancer radiotherapy. The dose volume histograms, the volume...

Introduction: In spite of large number of studies regarding relation between thyroid cancer and childhood irradiation, contraversy still exists management of these patients. This study tries to find optimal method of thyroid evaluation in this group. Methods and patients: In a recall program using mass media in Khorasan, all patients with childhood irradiation were invited for thyroid eva...

although tuberculosis involves every organ and has a wide range of clinical manifestation, however involvement of the thyroid gland is rare. we report a case of a 25-yr-old female with supraclavicular lymphadenitis that developed nodular swelling of the thyroid and had symptoms and sonographic features mimicking a nodule with a cystic component. the diagnosis was made by using fine needle aspir...

OBJECTIVE: Due to the increased prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in subjects with type 2 diabetes and also this fact that antibodies could potentially identify subjects at risk of thyroid dysfunction, this study was conducted to investigate thyroid autoimmunity in type 2 diabetic patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Among patients referred to Yazd Diabetes Research Center, 4000 type 2 diabetic pat...

background: anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (anti-tpo antibody) is a member of thyroid autoantibodies which are important in inducing and also diagnosing autoimmune thyroid diseases. thyroid autoimmunity can cause several forms of thyroiditis and abnormal thyroid functions, ranging from hypothyroidism to hyperthyroidism. objective: to evaluate the relationship between serum levels of anti-tpo ...

radioiodine (1-131) is the treatment of choice in differentiated thyroid carcinoma. external radiotlierapy however, has it's own roie in these tumors. treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma 1ms not acliieved any notahle success yet, though combined - modality regimens of radiotherapy and chemotherapy have sometimes shown significant results. in this paper the role of radiotlierapy and chemot...