(1) Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and its concentration were measured in thyroid tissues obtained from patients with Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, differentiated thyroid cancer, and endemic goiter (before and after iodine supplementation) as well as in normal thyroid tissue (paranodular tissue) from patients with follicular adenomas.
(2) A total of 5.8% abnormalities were found including nodular disease, thyroiditis, Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, simple goiter, and iatrogenic hyperthyroidism.
(3) Small oval cysts (less than or equal to 1 cm) with strong echo were all diagnosed colloid goiter.
(4) Levothyroxine therapy lowered the monoiodotyrosine and diiodotyrosine levels, ameliorated all her endocrinopathies, started her periods, and shrank the goiter.
(5) Rather, there was diffuse thyroidal hyperplasia of the micronodular variety, consistent with multinodular toxic goiter.
(6) The histological picture of the goiters was similar to that found in thiourea-treated teleosts and thiouracil-treated mammals.
(7) The data obtained suggest that the alkaline subfraction is characterized by an increased rigidity and apparently by altered structural properties in toxic goiter.
(8) The tumors included one goiter and one Hürthle cell adenoma, one lymphoma, one medullary carcinoma, two Hürthle cell cancers, and five papillary cancers, varying widely in clinical staging and histologic differentiation.
(9) The high incidence of goiter in older patients is probably due to insufficient iodine intake in youth.
(10) The increased functional activity of the endothelium, thinner walls of capillaries and the appearnace of a greater amount of fenestrations against the background of the thyroid stimulation are likely to be factors contributing to penetration of non-hormonal iodine products (iodine tyrosines and products of incomplete hydrolysis of thyroglobulins) into the circulation, which can be observed under certain pathological conditions accompanied by increased thyrotropic stimulation--such as diffused toxic goiter and diffuse non-toxic goiter.
(11) The long-term follow-up (up to 30 years) of the patients with reoperations for GATG recurrences, or subsequent development of a "goiter" has shown that GATG presented a metastasis of papillary thyroid cancer into the lateral lymph nodes of a neck.
(12) Of various possibilities analyzed, only a small goiter at the onset of therapy and tri-iodothyronine toxicosis were significantly favorable prognostic indicators that a remission would be maintained.
(13) Aim of this report is a stress of over-hasty classification to the surgical treatment of goiter diagnosed as hyperactive.
(14) Females of all ages had a higher prevalence of goiter than did males.
(15) To determine whether differences in TSH receptors could account for the differences in AC activity, we studied the 8000 g membrane particulate fraction from 28 thyroid tissues (10 papillary carcinomas, 6 multinodular goiters, 4 follicular adenomas, 3 follicular carcinomas, 2 Graves, 1 normal, 1 Hürthle cell adenoma, and 1 thyroiditis).
(16) The unusual case of a patient with goiter and left faciobrachiocrural paresis due to right temporoparietal infarction is reported.
(17) Iodine balance during pregnancy and lactation was investigated by measuring iodine concentration in the urine of 11 pregnant women, born and living in a moderately iodine deficient endemic goiter area in Northeastern Sicily, collected during the last week of pregnancy, and between the 5th and 7th day after delivery, and in their milk sampled simultaneously with the urine of their newborns.
(18) The child showed two types of signs : respiratory distress due to higher neurological disorders and a multinodular, non-compressing goiter.
(19) Benign disease was diagnosed in 345 patients (232 with benign nodular goiter, 98 with lymphocytic thyroiditis, three with granulomatous thyroiditis, and 12 with cysts).
(20) The knowledge of the anterior adjacent lamellae of the throat is very important for surgery of the goiter and parathyroid glands.
Goitre
Definition:
(n.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.
Example Sentences:
(1) TGI was present in high titres in all five patients who complained about recurrent goitre.
(2) There is no reason to describe deafness and deafmutism in an area with severe endemic goitre as a separate entity.
(3) There was a significant inverse correlation between the TcTU values and the urinary iodine excretion in the groups of normal thyroids and of goitres with euthyroidism.
(4) The sera of 20 out of 72 patients (27%) with euthyroid goitre (not operated on) and of ten out of 26 patients (38%) with recurrent euthyroid goitre contained immunoglobulins stimulating thyroid growth (TGI).
(5) In the goitres with low T3 of treated patients, T4 was also reduced but disproportionately to T3.
(6) Out of 50 consecutive untreated patients with diffuse toxic goitre 15 showed long-acting thyroid stimulator (LATS), 30 showed LATS protector only, and five showed neither.
(7) The prevalence of goitre and iodine level of drinking water found to have an inverse relationship.
(8) The Dalit subdistrict has the highest incidence of goitre (82.6%) followed by the Pagalunggan subdistrict (77.8%), the majority of these goitre cases being classified as grade 2 (visible goitres).
(9) In addition two subjects with a euthyroid multinodular goitre demonstrated levels of TSH below the normal range despite being clinically and biochemically euthyroid.
(10) Hyperthyroid patients treated with 131I and surgery (euthyroid at initial blood sampling before surgery), patients with atoxic nodular goitre treated by surgery and healthy untreated control individuals comprised the material.
(11) This study reports one unit's experience of the value of computed tomography (CT) in the evaluation of 24 patients with large cervical and retrosternal goitres.
(12) The ELISA was negative in 100% healthy blood donors, 100% non-toxic nodular goitre, in 12 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 18 patients with scleroderma and 94% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
(13) The occurrence of congenital deafness, mutism and goitre unassociated with cretinism or mental retardation in euthyroid patients is known as Pendred's Syndrome.
(14) These patients consulted for hyperthyroidism (n = 42, including 18 with Graves' disease), fumary hypothyroidism (n = 50, including 20 at the diagnosis stage), euthyroid diffuse or nodular goitre (n = 81) or benign euthyroid nodule (n = 14).
(15) Thirteen patients and three controls had a goitre (P less than 0.02).
(16) The effectiveness of various doses of T4 in suppressing the temporary rise in serum TSH concentration normally induced by thyrotropin-releasing hormone was examined in 57 patients treated with T4 for atoxic goitre or after subtotal surgical removal of such a goitre.
(17) Thus it is advisable that all patients with Graves' thyrotoxicosis, regardless of treatment, and all patients with toxic multinodular goitre or solitary toxic adenoma treated with radioiodine, should be followed up for many years, and probably for life.
(18) The authors describe the principal clinical and pathological aspects of the solitary hyperfunctioning adenoma or the multifocal hyperfunction of a multinodular goitre.
(19) 50% of the patients had had recurrences from previous goitre removals and 1 to 3% developed post-therapeutic hypothyroidism.
(20) Similarly, low levels of "activated" T cells were demonstrated in 5 of 18 patients with hyperthyroid Graves' disease and in 10 of 18 patients with ophthalmopathy compared with only one of 12 patients with nodular goitres.