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[Struma ovarii associated with Graves' disease]
Valeria Pastorino Casas1, M Florencia Borghi Torzillo1, Daniel Schere2
1Servicio de Endocrinología, Servicio de Endocrinología y Metabolismo, Complejo Médico Churruca-Visca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Medicina
|January 24, 2018
Abstract:
Hyperthyroidism is defined as an excessive production of thyroid hormones by eutopic or ectopic mature thyroid tissue. The overall prevalence of hyperthyroidism is 1.2% and the most common cause is Graves' disease. Struma ovarii represents 1% of all ovarian tumors and is an uncommon cause of ectopic hyperthyroidism. It is benign in >90% of the cases; usually asymptomatic, and only 8% are presented with thyrotoxicosis, being rare its association with Graves' disease. We report the case of a patient with this association.