Total or partial thyroidectomy has been proposed as the initial treatment for benign euthyroid oiter. The aim of this study is to determine the complications associated with surgical procedures for goiter, based on ou...
Introduction: Toxic multinodular goitre, first described by H.S. Plummer in 1913, is unremitting and often develops slowly, with more subtle symptoms than Graves’ disease. Cardiac symptoms such as tachycardia, heart ...
Goitre is defined as the presence of amyloid within the thyroid gland in such quantities as to produce a clinically apparent enlargement. We report a case on a fifty-two-year-old female patient who presented with a ra...
Objective: To determine the incidence of deafness in patients suffering from goiterous hypothyroidism exclusively and to evaluate the role of L-thyroxine therapy in improving the hearing in this group of patients. Stu...
Assaying parathyroid hormone(PTH) in the washing liquid after fine-needle aspiration biopsy(FNAB) seems to be a valid approach to locate parathyroid tissue.PTH-FNAB was evaluated in 47 patients with a clinical picture...
To examine serum levels of sICAM 1 from normal controls and patients with thyroid diseases (simple goitre, Graves’ disease or Hashimoto’s thyroiditis) with 125 Ⅰ sICAM 1 RIA established in our lab Methods ...
In order to find an easy and accurate procedure for diagnosis of diffuse goitre in children, we examined 50 patients with diffuse goitre using fine needle aspiration biopsy cytology, thyroid antibody detection, thyroi...