Endokrynologia Polska 2010, tom 61, nr 3

An essential and widely accepted method of treating thyroid diseases is surgical treatment [1]. One of the basic indications for surgery is malignant lesion within the thyroid gland [2–4]. Such lesions may either be neoplasms developed primarily in the gland or, rarely, distant metastases from other organs [5–10]...

The incidence rate of acromegaly is 50 to70 persons per one million people. It occurs twice as often in women than in men, especially in middle age. In the course of the disease, insulin resistance develops, which is connected with the hypersecretion of somatotropin, which disturbs insulin activity both in the liver and peripheral tissues [1]...

Recent years have brought widespread use of ultrasound techniques in diagnostics of thyroid gland pathologies. The technical development of sonographic imaging has converged together with its increasing accessibility. Therefore, due to its numerous advantages, thyroid ultrasound examination has evolved from a method reserved for experimental studies, used onlyto support other diagnostic means, to an essential part of, and a gold standard in, the diagnostics of thyroid diseases...