Introduction solitary thyroid nodule is defined as a single discrete mass of abnormal tissue in an otherwise normal thyroid gland. In different studies, thyroid nodules were found in 4-7 percent of American adults. Thyroid nodule is probably one of the commonest endocrine problems in the wold. In a report from the thyroid clinic, IPGMR, Dhaka, 32.67 percent of all thyroid patients had solitary ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to perform a cost-effectiveness comparison between palpation-guided thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsies (P-FNA) and ultrasound-guided thyroid FNA biopsies (USG-FNA). METHODS Each nodule was considered as a case. Diagnostic steps were history and physical examination, TSH measurement, Tc99m thyroid scintigraphy for nodules with a low TSH level, initial P...

introduction acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is the most common malignancy of childhood. patients with all commonly present with easy bruising and infections due to medullary involvement. the extra medullary involvements of all manifests as hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and testicular enlargement. among extramedullary manifestations of the all, thyroid involvement is rare. herein, we ...

background transient hypocalcemia is one of the postoperative complications of thyroidectomy for thyroid nodules, and intraoperative and postoperative intact parathyroid hormone (ipth) assays are used to predict postoperative hypocalcemia. objectives the current study was conducted to evaluate a single serum ipth measurement on postoperative day 1 (pod 1) as a means to predict hypocalcemia occu...

Ectopic parathyroid adenomas represent a diagnostic challenge, since they are quite rare in clinical practice. We present a case of a 61 years old man with symptomatic hypercalcemia due to an ectopic parathyroid adenoma in the upper-anterior mediastinum that was not localized by the scintigraphy. Ultrasonography identified a nodule on the left upper-superior lobe of the thyroid gland, consisten...

Appearance of a thyroid nodule has become a daily occurrence in clinical practice. Adequate thyroid nodule assessment requires several diagnostic tests and multiple medical appointments, which results in a substantial delay in diagnosis. Implementation of a high-resolution thyroid nodule clinic largely avoids these drawbacks by condensing in a single appointment all tests required for adequate ...

Medical records of 228 patients who had undergone thyroid surgery were studied. There were 179 females and 49 males with mean age of 33-8 years. Pre-op. diagnosis was cold nodule in 4. 4 %. Pathology diagnosis was simple goiter in 54%, adenoma in 23%, thyroid cancer in 15% and colloid cyst in 5.3% of the patients. Among carcinomas 68% were papillary, 29% follicular and 3% medullary. There were1...

Thyroid ultrasound is used in the routine clinical assessment and the follow-up of thyroid disorders. The follow- up of patients with thyroid nodules is mostly based on thyroid nodule volume determinations performed by different observers. However, for the judgment of treatment effects there is uncertainty about the interobserver variation of thyroid nodule volume measurements by ultrasound bec...

introduction although thyroid nodules are usually benign, malignancy must always be ruled out. many efforts have been made to find. malignant nodules and reduce the number of unnecessary operations. in this study, our aim was to examine, after the more extensive use of fine needle aspiration (fna), whether the incidence of cancer finding has been increased. materials and methods we studied retr...