Screening for thyroid cancer according to French recommendations with thyroid ultrasound in newly diagnosed Graves' disease without palpable nodule is not useful.

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.

[Acquired childhood and juvenile subclinical hypothyroidism with or without goitre].

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.