ESPE Abstracts

Background: Thyroid dysfunction is a well-known endocrine complication after cervical irradiation for Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL). The most common are primary hypothyroidism (20–30%), central hypothyroidism, transient thyroiditis and thyroid cancer. Graves’ disease (GD) is less frequent (5%).Objective and hypotheses: We describe a boy, already diagnosed with thyroiditis, who developed GD during follow-up for severe hypothyroidism following rad...