Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a still poorly understood and relatively common chronic inflammatory disease of oral mucosa. A connection between OLP and certain diseases have been reported in the past, such as diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis C infection (HCV), thyroid disease, and malignant diseases. There is some controversial about mentioned link with OLP. The study objective was to investigat...

Aim: To compare the ARFI elastographic and scintigraphic quantitative data obtained from thyroid gland to evaluate diagnostic value of measurements in autoimmune diseases.
 Material Method: In study a total 61 patients (41 women, 20 men) including 24 Graves’ disease, 15 Hashimoto disease 22 control subjects. The mean age was 33.9±10.9 years. Patients with nodules were not included study. T...

Accurate differentiation of focal thyroid nodules (FTL) and thyroid abnormalities is pivotal for proper diagnostic and therapeutic work-up. In these two part articles, the role of ultrasound techniques in the characterization of FTL and evaluation of diffuse thyroid diseases is described to expand on the recently published World Federation in Ultrasound and Medicine (WFUMB) thyroid elastography...

In order to determine the incidence and to understand recent trend of thyroid neoplasm and other thyroid diseases among Korean, a nation-wide collection of biopsy-confirmed and surgically removed thyroid lesions from 30 pathology laboratories of university and general hospitals was made over a 3-year-period from 1986 to 1988. These tumors and tumor-like lesions of the thyroid were classified ac...

OBJECTIVE Thyroid diseases are common in individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and should be investigated annually in these individuals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of thyroid diseases in first degree relatives (FDR) of patients with T1DM. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Eighty individuals (40 patients with T1DM and 40 FDR) were interviewed and blood was sampled for th...

The association between a familial history of autoimmune disease and childhood acute leukemia was investigated in a French case-control study that, overall, was designed to assess the role of perinatal, infectious, environmental, and genetic factors in the etiology of childhood acute leukemia. Familial histories of autoimmune disease in firstand second-degree relatives were compared in 279 inci...

OBJECTIVE To analyze, at a population level, the relation between the incidences of benign thyroid diseases in patients submitted to surgery and that of thyroid cancers based on their respective geographical distributions. METHODS The study included 3169 cases (691 cancers and 2478 benign diseases) operated on in 2002 in the Rhône-Alpes région, which is subdivided into eight départements and ...

Serum anti-thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) and anti-thyroid microsomal antibody (McAb) in 213 cases of thyroid disorders and 32 cases of non-thyroid disorders were studied. The antibodies were checked by commercial tanned red cell hemagglutination kits (Thymune-T and Thymune-M) purchased from Wellcome Reagents, Limited, England. The positive rates of TgAb and McAb in patients with untreated toxic...