What's the difference between struma and thyromegaly?
Struma
Definition:
(n.) Scrofula.
(n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Teratomas, which consist only or predominantly of thyroid tissue, are termed struma ovarii.
(2) Cells obtained from non-malignified tissues (diffuse struma) in 83 of 100 cases formed a continuous layer consisting of monomorphous epithelioid cells possessing a high adhesive capacity.
(3) Disorders of cellular immune reactions, struma and hepatosis were absent.
(4) Responsible for the development of paralysis was, in eight cases, the unphysiologic positioning of the arm during anesthesia and, as an additional straining moment, either the pressing down of the shoulders for Trendelenburg's position of the retroflection of the head in operations for struma.
(5) Treatment with prednisolone improved muscle weakness, urinary difficulties and struma.
(6) Surgical treatment was applied to 18 patients for intrathoracic struma.
(7) The risk of thyroidectomy on all patients with uncomplicated struma lymphomatosa would greatly outweigh the benefits of preventing carcinoma.
(8) Diagnosis of struma ovarii was made by radioiodine profile scanning and an ovarian tumour was removed.
(9) A case of a malignant struma ovarii is presented and results of therapy discussed.
(10) Physical findings were unremarkable other than grade III diffuse struma.
(11) Of 1294 patients examined with struma of magnitude I to III, complications in the form of mechanical effects on the neighboring organs, disturbances of thyroid function and pathological anatomical changes in the struma were demonstrated in 1051 cases.
(12) The rich content of the results and the sufficient period of time give grounds to calculate and draw the direction and rate of the tendency in the nitrate content changes, for this period, for the separate rivers--favourable for Struma, Iskŭr and Danube; with no changes for Ogosta and Yantra; pessimistic for Tundzha.
(13) Discordant results (increased serum hormone levels and a low RAI) are found either in the usual forms of hyperthyroidism when large quantities of iodide are ingested, or in atypical forms of hyperthyroidism, including spontaneously resolving hyperthyroidism of subacute thyroiditis, thyrotoxicosis factitia, toxic struma ovarii, and functioning metastatic thyroid cancer.
(14) Concerning cervicoendothoracic borderline cases, the same point of view is advocated, e.g., struma endothoracica falsa and vera alliata.
(15) Postoperative histological evidence was available of all patients (carcinomas [n = 31], follicular and oncocytic adenomas [n = 235], nodular hyperplasia, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Riedel's struma and de Quervain's thyroiditis [n = 134]).
(16) In a female patient aged 43 years severe hypothyroidism was caused by Hashimoto struma.
(17) Sonographic and radioisotope investigations were carried out in 92 patients with nodular goitre (colloidal struma, adenoma, cyst, thyroiditis and carcinoma).
(18) By means of anamnestic and clinical examinations carried out on 1,055 test persons of all age groups in four adjacent communities of the County of Suhl an average frequency of struma of 53.9% was stated.
(19) This had the pathological features of struma ovarii and autoradiographic evidence of pre-operatively administered 125I was seen in the lesion.
(20) An oophorectomy specimen in a patient aged 36 showed a dermoid cyst with a struma ovarii and what was considered to be a folliculo-trabecular adenoma.