The Thyroid and Parathyroids

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  1. 5. Treatment for medullary thyroid carcinoma.
  2. 8. This hormone helps regulate calcium levels in your blood by decreasing it.
  3. 10. Manifestation of autoimmune thyroid disease manifested by a triad of signs: digital clubbing, soft tissue swelling of the hands and feet, and periosteal new bone formation.
  4. 11. Produced in the proximal tubular cells of the kidney, this active form of Vitamin D increases blood calcium levels mainly by increasing the uptake of calcium in the small intestines.
  5. 12. The most common cause of hyperthyroidism in the developed world.
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  1. 1. The most advanced and aggressive type of thyroid cancer.
  2. 2. This lobe of the thyroid is an embryological remnant.
  3. 3. Term used to describe thyroid dermopathy of the pretibial area resulting from the deposition of hyaluronic acid.
  4. 4. This possible location of one or more parathyroid glands can make it difficult for them to be identified on sestamibi scan.
  5. 6. Another term used to describe expansile bony lesions in hyperparathyroidism, due to the type of cell that predominantly causes the lesion to form.
  6. 7. Low levels of this mineral occur in hyperthyroidism due to an intracellular shift induced by the thyroid hormone sensitization of Na+/K+–ATPase.
  7. 9. Reduces circulating PTH levels by increasing the sensitivity of the calcium-sensing receptor to extracellular calcium.