background and objective: hypothyroidism is a known consequence of the external beam radiotherapy to the neck encompassing the thyroid gland for over 40 years. the aim of this study was to find out the incidence of hypothyroidism in patients with head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy, when radiation portals included whole of the thyroid gland. materials and methods: this prospective no...

Introduction: Alopecia areata is a common clinical problem involving 1% of population. It is associated with many autoimmune disorders. One of the most common associations is autoimmune thyroid disease. So it seems necessary to examine the patients with alopecia areata more exactly. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate thyroid gland dysfunction in patients with alopecia areata. Mate...

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...

backgroundchildhood obesity has become a global epidemic. in the recent studies has reported risk of thyroid dysfunction due to obesity. therefore, this study intends to compare the relative frequency of thyroid function disorders in obese and overweight children with non-obese children.materials and methodsthis case-control study during 2015 to 2016 in birjand, iran was done on 137 children an...

salivary gland involvement is one of the radioiodine therapy complications. salivary gland scintigraphy in quantitative mode can accurately evaluate salivary gland function. methods: salivary gland scintigraphy was performed with tc-99m pertechnetate, at the time of iodine therapy as a basic study and then 3 weeks and 3 months afterwards. ejection fraction (ef) of parotid and submandibular glan...

introduction: verapamil, a phenylalkylamin –type ca2+ channel blocker, is widely used in the treatment of cardiovascular disorders especially as an antiaryhthmic and antiangina agent. theoretically, calcium can influence thyroid function and there are evidences that ca2+ channel blockers are able to interfere with thyroid function. in this study, the effects of chronic oral administration of ve...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis is anautoimmune thyroid disease presenting with transient thyrotoxicosis as well as transient hypothyroidism. Several factors have been thought to be the initiating event in subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis. However, subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis that develops after thyroid lobectomy has not yet been reported in the literature. We r...