Perfluorooctane Sulfonate and Perfluorooctanoic Acid in Surgical Thyroid Specimens of Patients with Thyroid Diseases

Abstract

These observations do not support the view that PFOA and PFOS are actively concentrated in the thyroid. PFOA and PFOS, however, are both found in surgical and autopsy thyroid specimens. Therefore, further studies to determine if they have disrupting effects in thyroid cells or tissue, and studies to compare populations with and without these compounds in their thyroid glands, are important.