Isolated metastases to the thyroid gland are rare. It is not common for lung cancer metastasize gland, and when it metastasizes; predominant pathology usually adenocarcinoma. In this article, a rare case of metastasis from squamous cell presented. A forty-four-year-old male patient diagnosed with Stage III in our clinic. After chemotherapy, nodular lesion detected. Through fine needle aspiratio...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) metastasis to the thyroid gland is rare. Here wereport a 45 yr-old man in western Iran referred to Hematology Clinic, Kermanshah city, Iran in March 2014 with complaint of exertional dyspnea, multi-nodular goiter as well as complaint of exertional dyspnea, and multi-nodular goiter. His history included a low anterior resection of rectum in 9 months ago for a high-risk st...

Introduction: We report a case of a 64-year old man with a history of colon carcinoma. He underwent fine-needle aspiration by CytoFoam-core and diagnosis of metastatic colon cancer to the thyroid gland. Case presentation: In this case report, a solid thyroid nodule in the right lobe of a 64-year-old male was aspirated. The cytological smears showed a small group of atypical cells with the obvi...

introduction: thyroid hormones play an important role in the regulation of metabolism, maturity and reproduction. thyroid dysfunction affects almost all endocrine glands such as pituitary and testis. the aim of this study was to investigate alterations of testosterone and luteinizing hormone (lh) serum levels as well as weights of thyroid gland and testes in methimazole (mmi)-induced hypothyroi...

Proper interpretation of the thyroid gland functional data is an important issue on the diagnosis of thyroid disease. The primary role of the thyroid gland is to help regulation of the body’s metabolism. Thyroid hormone produced by the thyroid gland provides this. Production of too little thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) or production of too much thyroid hormone (hyper-thyroidism) definites the...

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: among the endocrine diseases, hypothyroidism is the commonest after diabetes.thyroid hormones (t3,t4) are essential for genital organs function. apoptosis process in ovarian cells plays a significant role of development in ovarian follicles. the aim of the present study was determine the apoptotic index induced by hypothyroidism in rat ovarian follicles. materials and methods: in ...

HYPOTHESIS The detection of suspected malignant thyroid nodules by ultrasonography is associated with thyroid gland volume and tumor size. DESIGN Prospective clinical trial. SETTING A tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Three hundred sixty-five patients with a multinodular goiter with coexistent dominant nodules. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The correlation between thyroid gland volume and tumo...

BACKGROUND Indications for thyroidectomy during laryngectomy are controversial. We examined whether clinicopathologic features can predict thyroid gland involvement, and the prognostic effect of thyroid gland involvement in patients undergoing total laryngectomy. METHODS The study set out to review preoperative assessment, operation findings, pathologic findings, and follow-up data. RESULTS...