Introduction. Although follicular thyroid carcinoma is a rare malignant tumor, up to 20% of the patients are threatened by potential complications resulting from infiltrating tumor growth into surrounding tissues. Case report. A 66year-old female came to hospital with the presence of a growing thyroid nodule of the left lobe. Ultrasonic examination showed a 8 cm hypoechoic nodule in the left lo...

Introduction: Various radiopharmaceuticals, including 67Ga, 201Tl, and 99mTc-sestamibi have been used to differentiate benign from malignant thyroid nodules. 99mTc-Tetrofosmin, a lipophilic cationic radiotracer, and 99mTc-sestamibi have also been reported to accumulate in thyroid tumors. In this study, we evaluated the role of 99mTc-Tetrofosmin in the differentiation of malignant from ben...

background: sonoelastography is a new ultrasound method which could be helpful to determine which thyroid nodule is malignant. we designed this study to evaluate the accuracy of sonoelastography in differentiating of benign and malignant thyroid nodules in iranian patients. methods: forty thyroid nodules in forty consecutive patients who had been referred for sonography‑guided fine‑needle aspir...

377 patients with single thyroid nodule who clinically were candidates for surgery, were selected from the patients that referred to the clinics of endocrinology at namazee hospital, shiraz medical school. fine needle aspiration (fna) was carried out without performing thyroid scan and the results were compared with histology obtained by surgery to establish its accuracy in our center. which is...

conclusions for the first time to our knowledge, we have reported a severe retropharyngeal and upper mediastinum cellulitis, probably due to the fna procedure in an immunocompetent young woman. case presentation a thirty-five-year-old female was admitted to hospital with hoarseness, laryngeal stridor and dyspnea without fever that emerged about 3 days after a first diagnostic fna. after the pro...

A 68-year-old man had a rapidly growing, painless neck mass, thought to be nodular goiter. Ultrasonography showed a giant, heterogeneous mass occupying the middle and superior poles and protruding outside of the left thyroid lobe. The results of the thyroid function tests were normal. Thyroid scintigraphy revealed a large hypoactive nodule in the left thyroid lobe. Complete surgical removal of ...