Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate systematic thyroid ultrasonography (US) relevance in newly diagnosed Graves' disease among patients presenting without palpable nodules.
Subjects And Methods: We consecutively recruited 208 cases of Graves' disease without palpable nodule. All patients were screened for thyroid antibodies and underwent a thyroid US.
Objective: Primary acquired childhood and juvenile hypothyroidism is mainly due to chronic thyroiditis or to the after effects of cervical radiotherapy for cancer. In the presence of clinically evocative signs, with a palpable goitre or firm thyroid, hypothyroidism is searched for. However, cases of childhood and juvenile hypothyroidism without goitre have been described.
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