Introduction Follicular thyroid carcinoma is the second most frequent type of well differentiated thyroid tumours. It is usually confined to the thyroid gland, however it can metastasize in a later stage of the disease. Signs and symptoms associated with bone metastasis are rare as first clinical manifestations. Case report An 84-year-old female complained with acute paraparesis. Magnetic res...

OBJECTIVE The adenylyl cyclase system plays an important role in the control of both thyroid follicular and anterior pituitary cell function. Activating mutations affecting important pathway components such as the TSH receptor and Gsalpha occur in the majority of autonomously functioning thyroid nodules. Only a small proportion of other types of thyroid tumours, however, have been reported to h...

BACKGROUND The incidence of thyroid cancer has more than doubled in recent decades. Debate continues on whether the increasing incidence is a result of an increased detection of small neoplasms or other factors. METHODS Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database, we examined the overall incidence of thyroid cancer with variations based on tumor pathology, size, and stage, a...

INTRODUCTION Malignant lymphoma of the thyroid gland can be defined as a lymphoma arising from the thyroid gland. Lymphomas of the thyroid gland represent less than 5% of primary thyroid neoplasms and are two to three times more common in women than in men, whereas the median age is usually close to 60 years. Majority of thyroid lymphomas are diffuse, large-cell lymphomas. The incidence of thyr...

Purpose. We present a rare case of colorectal metastasis to the thyroid five years following primary colonic resection. This case highlights the need to be cognisant of unusual sites of metastasis from colorectal neoplasms. Case Report. An 82-year-old male patient had a panproctocolectomy for synchronous colorectal tumours. Five years later he was found to have lung and thyroid metastases found...

We report on a case of extraluminal tracheal granular-cell tumor which was interpreted as a Hurthle-cell neoplasm of the thyroid on fine-needle aspirate. Review of the literature reveals only one other such case. The patient was a 35-yr-old female who presented with an enlarged thyroid. Aspiration cytology revealed a syncytium of cells with abundant granular cytoplasm interpreted as a thyroid f...

Objective. Paraganglioma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor. When it is located in the neck, it is commonly misdiagnosed as other thyroid neoplasms. Case Report. We report a case of cervical paraganglioma in a 55-year-old female. Patient was admitted to our clinic with goiter and neck pain. Thyroid ultrasonography revealed a 20 mm solitary, heterogeneous nodule located in the upper pole of left thy...

A bioassay of 1,5-naphthalenediamine for possible carcinogenicity was conducted using Fischer 344 rats and B6C3F1 mice. 1,5-Naphthalenediamine was administered in the feed, at either of two concentrations, to groups of 50 male and 50 female animals of each species. The high and low dietary concentrations utilized in the chronic bioassay were, respectively, 0.1 and 0.05 percent for rats and 0.2 ...