UNLABELLED The malignancy risk is low in hot thyroid nodules verified by scintigraphy. We present a rare case of papillary carcinoma, initially treated as an autonomous hot nodule. Case report. A 36-year old male patient with a hot thyroid nodule and subclinical hyperthyroidism was treated with 10mCi 131 I. On admission, both 99mTc and 131 I thyroid scintigraphic imaging revealed a hot nodule a...

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...

BACKGROUND Riedel's thyroiditis (RT) is a rare form of chronic thyroiditis, associated with fibroinflammatory process involving the thyroid and surrounding cervical tissues, leading to compressive symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of RT in a 73-year-old female with dyspnoea caused by severe trachea compression. She had reported dyspnoea during physical stress, and had noticed a la...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate if a nodule with shape taller than wide (anteroposterior/transverse diameter ratio, A/T > or = 1) is a good predictor of malignancy independent of the size. METHODS We retrospectively examined the cytological and histological results of 7455 nodules (5198 patients) referred for ultrasound-guided-fine needle aspiration cytology (US-FNAC) in our hospital from January 1991 ...

BACKGROUND Cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules represent a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. In 2007, the National Cancer Institute recommended The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) as a means of improving the accuracy of thyroid cytopathology. Our objective was to determine the effect of TBSRTC on thyroidectomy rates and malignancy risk in cytologically i...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Thyroid nodules in children often require surgical treatment. We evaluated management practices for these across Canada. METHODS Patient records from 9 Canadian pediatric centers of children undergoing surgery for thyroid nodules over a 6-year period were reviewed. Demographics, presenting features, investigations, surgical treatment, pathology, and complications were asses...

It is challenging to distinguish benign from malignant thyroid nodules on high resolution ultrasound. Many ultrasound features have been studied individually as predictors for thyroid malignancy, none with a high degree of accuracy, and there is no consistent vocabulary used to describe the features. Our hypothesis is that a standard vocabulary will advance accuracy. We performed a systemic lit...

OBJECTIVES To describe a cohort of survivors of childhood malignancy at risk of developing thyroid abnormality, and propose guidelines for management of such patients. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Late-effects oncology clinic at a large children's hospital in Sydney. SUBJECTS 142 patients who had received irradiation to the thyroid from the 1970s onwards, who attended the lat...

INTRODUCTION Secondary malignancy of the thyroid gland is uncommon, but it is a problem requiring ongoing recognition. As it is more common than primary thyroid malignancy, metastatic disease involving the thyroid gland should be actively excluded in a patient with enlarging or abnormal thyroid gland and a previously known primary tumour. CLINICAL PICTURE We report 2 cases of primary colon ca...