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patients with another chronic thyroid disease, in this case nodular goitre. Furthermore, we aimed at identifying potential clinical and socio-demographic determinants of anxiety and depression in patients with Graves' disease. Material and Methods
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gland with pre-existing abnormalities (nodular goitre, latent Graves disease, chronic autoimmune thyroiditis) [ 2 ]. The epidemiology of AIT has changed over a period of 25 years in Italy, as the prevalence of AIT due to destructive thyroiditis (see
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practice of European thyroidologists. Hence, we carried out a survey among European Thyroid Association (ETA) members aimed at investigating the attitude of ETA members towards the use of MIT in diagnosis/therapy of symptomatic nodular goitre. Imitating
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The main histological diagnosis was nodular goitre in 83% of the operated patients, follicular adenoma in 10%, thyroid carcinoma in 5% and thyroid cyst in 1%. Altogether, 27 patients (5.7%) developed thyrotoxicosis during the follow-up period (6
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Foundation, and S.B. was supported by grants from Odense University Hospital’s Research Council. References 1 Carlé A, Krejbjerg A, Laurberg P: Epidemiology of nodular goitre. Influence of iodine intake. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab 2014
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commenced, and the dose titrated to normalise her thyroid function tests. The maintenance dose was 150 µg. Neck ultrasonography showed a large nodular goitre suspicious of malignancy. A staging computed tomography (CT) scan of the neck and thorax revealed a
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case-note analysis of patients undergoing total thyroidectomy. The 2 groups of patients under study were those who had a diagnosis of Graves' disease and those diagnosed with toxic multi-nodular goitre (TMNG). By comparing these 2 groups, the authors
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serum TSH ≥4.0 mIU/L; and written informed consent. Exclusion criteria Exclusion criteria were previous diagnosis of toxic nodular goitre; Graves’ hyperthyroidism or orbitopathy; postpartum thyroiditis; previous radioiodine therapy or thyroid
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the follow-up of patients with thyroid cancer. Pupilli et al. [ 22 ] investigated the presence of the DNA BRAF mutation in plasma from 103 patients with nodular goitre and reported 65% specificity and 80% sensitivity to discriminate papillary thyroid