Management of neoplastic pericardial effusions.

Aims And Background: Malignant pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade are known complications of many advanced malignancies such as breast cancer, lung cancer, lymphomas and leukemias. Overall survival is low, due to other metastatic localizations. The present study evaluated the clinical outcome and prognosis in patients with advanced cancer with pericardial effusion.

Thyroid nodules in Graves disease and the risk of thyroid carcinoma.

Background: The risk of thyroid carcinoma in patients with Graves disease has been particularly emphasized when nodules coexist with thyroid hyperplasia; a surgical approach has been suggested.

Objectives: To detect thyroid nodules early in patients with Graves disease and to evaluate the risk of carcinoma.

Methods: The study group included 315 consecutive outpatients with Graves hyperthyroidism not previously treated with surgery or radioiodine therapy.

Psychopathological and cognitive features in subclinical hypothyroidism.

1. To evaluate effective and cognitive dysfunctions in subjects with a marginal form of thyroid hypofunction the authors studied a population of female goiter patients, divided in two groups on the basis of thyroid function: euthyroidism and subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH). 2.