(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.
Goitred
Definition:
(a.) Affected with goiter.
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.