Association of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Primary Aldosteronism.

Objective The association of primary aldosteronism (PA) with thyroid disease has already been suggested. The aim of this study was to examine the presence of PA in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PC) and to characterize such PC patients with PA. Methods We examined the presence of PA in 81 consecutive patients with PC, whose random sitting blood pressure (BP) was ≥140/90 mmHg in the office (n= 68), who had an incidental adrenal tumor or adrenal enlargement (n=9), or who showed hypokalemia (n=4).

Dual ectopic thyroid associated with thyroid hemiagenesis.

Unlabelled: We report a case of a 15-year-old girl with a midline neck mass that was first noted 2 or 3 years previously. She had been treated with levothyroxine (L-T4) for congenital hypothyroidism until 11 years of age. Ultrasonography revealed an atrophic right thyroid (1.

Familial occurrence of silent thyroiditis.

Two brothers and their mother, who had allergic rhinitis caused by Japanese cedar pollen, developed silent thyroiditis in spring. In addition, these three patients had the same HLA haplotype. Another brother, the father, and the paternal grandmother, who did not have allergic rhinitis caused by Japanese cedar pollen, did not show symptoms of silent thyroiditis.

Paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome and autoimmune Addison disease in a patient with thymoma.

A 48-year-old man with autoimmune Addison disease developed the following paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes (PNNS): limbic encephalitis, opsoclonus/myoclonus, and sensorimotor and autonomic neuropathies. An anterior mediastinal mass detected on a chest computed tomographic scan was found on resection to be a noninvasive lymphocytic thymoma. The PNNS went into remission 1 year after the thymectomy.

Thyroid hemiagenesis with postpartum silent thyroiditis.

A 28-year-old woman with thyroid hemiagenesis, who had been diagnosed as having Graves' disease, became pregnant during the course of methimazole treatment. The treatment was terminated in the second trimester. She delivered a normal infant at full term.

Measurement of tension of tendon tissue based on electrical impedance.

The objective of this study was to examine whether the tension of tendon tissue could be measured using electrical impedance and, if so, whether the errors in measurement of the initial tension of a reconstructed anterior cruciate ligament obtained using electrical impedance were small enough to allow its use in clinical practice. The patella-patellar tendon-tibia complex from 35 pig knees was dissected. The relationship between the impedance of the patellar tendon and the traction stress loaded on the patellar tendon, and the repeatability of stress-impedance curves was examined in 15 knees.