Background: Sex dimorphism strongly impacts tumor biology, with most cancers having a
male predominance. Uniquely, thyroid cancer (TC) is the only nonreproductive cancer with …

Background: Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is considered to be the most common autoimmune
disease. It is currently accepted that genetic susceptibility, environmental factors, and …

Objective: To develop evidence-based recommendations for safe, effective, and appropriate
thyroidectomy. Background: Surgical management of thyroid disease has evolved …

The complications of thyroidectomy vary from hypocalcemia and recurrent laryngeal nerve
lesions to injury of vocal folds, local hematoma, cysts, granuloma. Post-operative …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is heterogeneous and its molecular characteristics remain
elusive. We integrated transcriptomic sequencing, genomic analysis and clinicopathologic …

Background We evaluated the association between smoking status and thyroid cancer risk
and whether this association is mediated by body mass index (BMI) and thyroid-stimulating …

Background: It is uncertain whether the presence of autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) increases
the risk of thyroid cancer in children with thyroid nodules. This study evaluated the …

Objective Mercury and other toxic metals have been suggested to be involved in thyroid
disorders, but the distribution and prevalence of mercury in the human thyroid gland is not …

The association between autoimmune atrophic gastritis and thyroid disorders has been
observed since the early 1960s and the expression “thyrogastric syndrome” was coined to …

Background The autoimmune process and increased TSH associated with chronic
lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT) are factors that may promote development of thyroid cancer …