Numerous diseases that require surgical treatment often occur in the thyroid, one of the most important organs in the neck. An example of such pathologies are benign and malignant neoplasms. It is still not well known, however, if certain secondary malignant neoplasms may also arise there. While this pathology is relatively frequent, and often asymptomatic, the incidence of secondary lesions ob...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Lymph node metastases are rare in patients with follicular thyroid carcinoma, with an average incidence of 5.5% of all cases reported in the literature. In the present study we focused on the search for risk factors predictive of lymph node involvement in patients with follicular thyroid carcinoma to plan the most appropriate management and follow-up. METHODS AND STUDY DES...

A case of 68 years old Japanese male was reported who was clinically diagnosed senile psychopathy and was found visceral Hodgkin's disease by autopsy. The disease involved thyroid, right kidney, spleen and lymph nodes. The brain showed no macroscopic and microscopic changes except simple atrophy. Generally, diffuse involvement of thyroid was rare condition. In this case, severe degree of diffus...

a 29-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) presented with palpitation and neck swelling. initial sonography showed an ill-defined hypoechoic lesion in the right thyroid gland, mentioning subacute thyroiditis. the patient received conservative care for one week. however, her neck swelling worsened and she complained of dyspnea. follow up sonography showed marked enlargement of b...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Tumor volume and cartilage invasion have been suggested as prognostic factors of glottic carcinomas following definitive radiation therapy. Radiologic examinations provide additional information regarding the deep extension of tumor. We determined whether dynamic helical CT can predict local control of early (T1 and T2 stage) glottic carcinomas treated with definitive rad...

Background & objective: papillary thyroid cancer is the most common cancer of thyroid accounting for 75%-85% of all thyroid malignancies. Recently, β-catenin has been determined to play a role in clinical course of human epithelial cancers. This study was designed to reveal the association of β-catenin marker and papillary thyroid carcinoma behavior.<b...

Thyroid involvement is a common condition that can be recorded during the natural course of different systemic rheumatic diseases, including the mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC) syndrome or cryoglobulinemic vasculitis. MC is triggered by hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronic infection in the majority of cases; it represents the prototype of autoimmune-lymphoproliferative disorders complicating a significa...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence and clinical features of thyroid involvement in patients with hepatitis C virus-associated mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC+HCV) have been reviewed. DESIGN A PubMed Medline search was conducted through December 2011 to identify all studies that reported thyroid involvement in MC+HCV patients. Reference lists of the papers initially detected were manually searched to identif...

Thyroid lymphomas are rare clinical entities that may result from either the primary intrathyroid de novo or secondary thyroid gland involvement of a lymphoma. Among these, the Hodgkin's subtype is quite uncommon, accounting for 0.6-5% of all thyroid malignancies. The authors report on a 76-year-old female presenting with a thyroid nodule that, upon surgical excision, was found to be a nodular ...