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Carcinoma Papilífero primário de ducto do cisto tireoglosso – relato de caso
Primary Papillary Carcinoma of the Thyroglossal Duct Cyst: Case Report

Rev. Salusvita (Online); 39 (1), 2020
O cisto do ducto tiroglosso é uma anomalia congênita comum, decorrente da falha do desenvolvimento embriológico. Sempre que diagnosticado, é indicada a excisão cirúrgica do cisto, devido ao risco de infecção e malignidade, sendo mais comum o carcinoma papilífero da tireoide. Este trabalho relata...

Study of the relationship between vitamin D deficiency, sunlight incidence and skeletal/extra skeletaldiseases

Acta sci., Health sci; 42 (), 2020
It is estimated that more than 1 billion people worldwide have vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency. Vitamin D participates in bone mineralization, and is therefore important in osteoporosis, osteomalacia and rickets prevention. However, vitamin D deficiency could also be assoc...

Síndrome autoinmune tirogástrico (SAT): serie de casos

Resumen Un porcentaje importante de pacientes con gastritis crónica atrófica corporal autoinmune, o gastritis tipo A, desarrollan enfermedad autoinmune tiroidea (enfermedad de Graves o de Hashimoto) y viceversa, situación conocida como síndrome autoinmune tirogástrico (SAT), pero no se conoce su pre...

Morfometría y vascularización de la glándula tiroides en conejo (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Int. j. morphol; 37 (4), 2019
Las glándulas tiroides consisten en dos partes denominadas lobos que se encuentran en ambos lados de la laringe. El objetivo de este estudio fue caracterizar las medidas, topografía y vascularización de la glándula tiroides de conejos Nueva Zelanda. Las disecciones anatómicas se realizaron en 36 cad...

Hiperparatiroidismo primario: reporte de caso clínico
Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Case report

Rev. méd. hondur; 87 (2), 2019
Antecedentes: El hiperparatiroidismo primario, tercer trastorno metabólico más común a nivel mundial, provoca un aumento del calcio sérico y de la hormona paratiroidea, causado por una hiperactividad de las glándulas paratiroideas. En el 85% de los casos, se debe a un adenoma paratiroid...

Human herpesvirus 6A active infection in patients with autoimmune Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Braz. j. infect. dis; 23 (6), 2019
ABSTRACT Background: Hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is the commonest autoimmune endocrine illness in which antibodies against thyroid organ result in inflammation. The disease has a complex etiology that involves genetic and environmental influences. Viral infections may be involved ...

Ultrasonographic features of the normal thyroid gland in adult horses

Pesqui. vet. bras; 39 (11), 2019
Few reports have been published regarding the use of ultrasonography as a method of evaluating the normal thyroid gland in horses. For these reasons, this study aimed at determining reliably of the thyroid measurements from the comparison between the left and right thyroid lobes, as well as assessing the...

Interplay of TGFβ signaling and microRNA in thyroid cell loss of differentiation and cancer progression

ABSTRACT Thyroid cancer has been rapidly increasing in prevalence among humans in last 2 decades and is the most prevalent endocrine malignancy. Overall, thyroid-cancer patients have good rates of long-term survival, but a small percentage present poor outcome. Thyroid cancer aggressiveness is essentiall...

Comparison between peak systolic velocity of the inferior thyroid artery and technetium-99m pertechnetate thyroid uptake in differentiating Graves' disease from thyroiditis

ABSTRACT Objectives The differentiation between the various etiologies of thyrotoxicosis, including those with hyperthyroidism (especially Graves' disease [GD], the most common cause of hyperthyroidism) and without hyperthyroidism (like thyroiditis), is an important step in planning specific therapy. T...

Pre-operative embolization of thyroid arteries in a case of refractory amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis. Case report

Rev. colomb. anestesiol; 47 (3), 2019
Abstract Introduction: Amiodarone has become one of the main antiarrhythmic drugs. However, it may cause a wide variety of adverse effects, sometimes severe. Amiodarone-induced thyroid dysfunction is one of the best known problems, resulting in either thyrotoxicosis or hypothyroidism. Case presentation...