What's the difference between struma and tumour?

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, IskÅ­r 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.

Tumour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
  • (2) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
  • (3) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (4) Some S-100 reactive cells previously interpreted as tumour cells were refound in a few tumours.
  • (5) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (6) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
  • (7) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
  • (8) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
  • (9) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
  • (10) Tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a polypeptide produced by mononuclear phagocytes, has been implicated as an important mediator of inflammatory processes and of clinical manifestations in acute infectious diseases.
  • (11) Expression of AR was compared with that of ER and PR as well as with tumour grade and age.
  • (12) The risk of recurrence and progression in 170 patients presenting with pTa urothelial tumours of the bladder has been estimated so that follow-up can be rationalised.
  • (13) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (14) Finally, 10 patients had an intra- and extrasellar tumour (group III).
  • (15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
  • (16) We conclude that 1H MRS has a clear role in the diagnosis and biochemical assessment of intracranial tumours and in the evaluation and monitoring of therapy.
  • (17) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
  • (18) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • (19) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
  • (20) Three angiographic observations showing partial mesenteric vascularisation of renal tumours were made.

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