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Introduction Thyroid cancer in children is a rare disease found in only a few children in a million. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident in 2011, many children in Fukushima, Japan

Introduction/Background Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) has high sensitivity and specificity in distinguishing benign from malignant thyroid lesions [ 1 ]. However, in 2–16% of cases cytology is not diagnostic [ 2 ], i.e., the material is

the CBX7 gene was drastically downregulated in thyroid carcinoma cell lines versus normal thyroid cells. Subsequently, we demonstrated that there is progressive reduction in CBX7 expression levels that was well related with the malignant grade of the

Introduction A special report, ‘The Fukushima Accident’, was delivered at the 35th Annual Meeting of the European Thyroid Association in Krakow on September 11, 2011, and this study is the follow-up of the special report. In view of the

Introduction Neonatal thyroid ultrasonography has an important role in assessing thyroid anatomy in newborns with thyroid dysfunction. Hypothyroxinaemia of prematurity is also commonly reported among infants born prematurely and this is

TSH levels following the administration of metformin in patients with DM or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The clinical implication of a TSH-lowering property for metformin could be important as an adjunct in the pharmacological treatment of thyroid

Introduction Thyroid carcinomas account for 1–1.5% of all cancers and have a pronounced female predominance (sex ratio F/M: 6–7 cases/1). The incidence of thyroid cancers is around 7.5 in females and 2.1 in males per year per 100

currently not properly organized in Europe. In this paper, we present the experience of our 23 first cases of transaxillary thyroid robotic surgery by the daVinci system using the surgical technique described by Kang et al. [ 1 ]. We report one of the

Introduction The advantages of endoscopic over open surgery for thyroid diseases include reduced rates of hyperesthesia and paresthesia of the neck and highly improved cosmetic outcomes. The learning curve for endoscopic thyroidectomy with

Introduction Ultrasonography and cytology are very useful for the diagnosis and management of patients with thyroid nodules [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Some researchers [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ] reported that a solid hypoechoic appearance, irregular or