Oncohema Key

Karl Hürthle (1914), deutscher Physiologe und Kreislaufforscher. Privatbesitz, Dr. Elisabeth Hürthle Introduction The cells Karl Hürthle initially described in dogs were actually C cells, i.e., he has long been wrongly…

Oliver Cope in 1964. (Courtesy of the MGH Archives) Introduction Oliver Cope is known to many as one of the fathers of endocrine surgery and for his seminal work on…

J. B. Collip as Dean of Medicine, in his office at the University of Western Ontario, ca 1950s. (Photo used with permission from Western University, Western Archives, History of Medicine…

Hugh Spear Pemberton [2]. (By courtesy of the University of Liverpool Library) Hugh Spear Pemberton was born on June 3, 1890, in Liverpool, England, the youngest son of Thomas Shepherd…

Fig. 1 Histological section of normal thyroid, magnified 20 ×. Each colloid-filled follicle is surrounded by a single layer of thyroid follicular cells Thyroid Hormone Synthesis The thyroid gland produces…

Sir Richard Owen. (Reprinted with permission from Modarari et al. [12]. Courtesy of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England) Evolution of a Scientist Richard Owen was…

Phenotype Exon Codon ATA risk Sporadic MTC 13 768 A – 16 918 D – – – – FMTC 11 630 B – – 631 B – – 634 B…

Fig. 1 Incidence, mortality, and 5-year survival for throid cancer in the USA (1975–2011) [1] Clinical practice guidelines are an invaluable tool in the successful treatment of not only thyroid…