Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 42-year-old woman was referred to the endocrine clinic for multiple growing hypoechoic nodules. Her medical ...

Compared with primary care physicians, specialists were more likely to order unnecessary thyroid ultrasonography, according to a new study. In a survey of over 600 physicians, many physicians ordered ...

A 46-year-old Asian woman was seen in the endocrine clinic for evaluation of a goiter. She was originally from China, where here physician noted that she had an enlarged thyroid gland and reported an ...

Approximately a third of patients treated for hypothyroidism continue to maintain normal thyroid levels after discontinuing thyroid hormone replacement therapy. Those who were treated for overt ...

Thyroid-stimulating hormones (TSH) help regulate your body’s production of thyroid hormone. High TSH levels mean your thyroid is underperforming, while low levels mean you’re producing too much. Your ...

A minority are aggressive cancer that requires treatment, leaving physicians and patients with a problem — which nodules need to be biopsied for malignancy tests, which nodules show a small risk and ...

Thyroid nodules – small lumps that form within the thyroid gland – are relatively common, particularly among women. Most are harmless, but a small percentage of such nodules are cancerous. Currently, ...