The Thyroid and Parathyroids
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- 5. Treatment for medullary thyroid carcinoma.
- 8. This hormone helps regulate calcium levels in your blood by decreasing it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 12. The most common cause of hyperthyroidism in the developed world.
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- 1. The most advanced and aggressive type of thyroid cancer.
- 2. This lobe of the thyroid is an embryological remnant.
- 3. Term used to describe thyroid dermopathy of the pretibial area resulting from the deposition of hyaluronic acid.
- 4. This possible location of one or more parathyroid glands can make it difficult for them to be identified on sestamibi scan.
- 6. Another term used to describe expansile bony lesions in hyperparathyroidism, due to the type of cell that predominantly causes the lesion to form.
- 7. Low levels of this mineral occur in hyperthyroidism due to an intracellular shift induced by the thyroid hormone sensitization of Na+/K+–ATPase.
- 9. Reduces circulating PTH levels by increasing the sensitivity of the calcium-sensing receptor to extracellular calcium.