Open AccessZmiany ogniskowe w tarczycy u pacjentów z akromegalią — badanie kliniczno-kontrolne oraz aktualizacja metaanalizy
Author(s) -
Kosma Woliński,
Adam Stangierski,
Edyta Gurgul,
Barbara Bromińska,
Agata Czarnywojtek,
Martha Lodyga,
Marek Ruchała
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
endokrynologia polska
Language(s) - Polish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.413
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2299-8306
pISSN - 0423-104X
DOI - 10.5603/ep.2017.0001
Subject(s) - medicine , acromegaly , odds ratio , confidence interval , thyroid , gastroenterology , thyroid disease , endocrinology , hormone , growth hormone
Acromegaly results from oversecretion of growth hormone and subsequently insulin growth factor-1. According to some authors, the disease can cause increased prevalence of nodular goitre and thyroid cancer (TC). However, the number of studies comparing acromegalic patients with control groups is low. We aimed to assess the prevalence of thyroid lesions in patients with acromegaly in comparison to an age- and sex-matched control group and to update the meta-analysis previously performed in our department by the same authors.