Case study of a young female patient with severe hypothyroidism due to autoimmune thyroiditis
and multiple ovarian cysts is reported. A 14-year 7-month-old girl presented with pelvic …

To investigate the effects of long term thyroid hormone suppressive therapy on the heart, 20
patients were evaluated by noninvasive techniques. Of them, 10 were athyreotic after …

Background Familial, non-medullary thyroid carcinoma is clinically more aggressive than the
sporadic form. We wanted to find out whether papillary thyroid microcarcinoma also occurs …

Pulsed tissue Doppler (TD) is a new ultrasound tool that allows quantification of myocardial
regional wall motion. To investigate the cardiac effects of subclinical hypothyroidism (SH), …

We present a prospective study on the long-term efficacy of percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI)
treatment of a large series of symptomatic thyroid cystic nodules (STCN). Ninety-eight …

Objective To characterize cardiac structure and function and cardiac autonomic control in
patients with subclinical and overt hyperthyroidism. Design Thirty patients with subclinical …

Skeletal metastases from thyroid cancer are poorly responsive to medical or radioiodine
treatment. Bone destruction in skeletal metastases results from osteoclast-induced bone …

Objective Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is characterized by phenotypic heterogeneity
and has a wide variety of consequences. Approximately half of women with PCOS are …

BACKGROUND Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a neuroendocrine tumor derived from
parafollicular cells. At present, surgery is the most important treatment for MTC. METHODS …

Somatostatin analogs are promising agents in the treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
We have evaluated the effects of the slow release somatostatin analog lanreotide in …