Infectious Goiter

Endemic Goiter

ENDEMIC GOITER. The Adaptation of Man to Iodine Deficiency. By John B. Stanbury, Gordon L. Brownell, Douglas S. Riggs, Hector Perinetti, Juan Itoiz, and Enrique B. Del Castillo. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1954. 209 pp. $4.00. This monograph reports the results obtained by the Andean Goiter Expedition, a joint project undertaken by Harvard Medical School, the University ...

Retrosternal Goiter

Objective. Retrosternal goiters pose a significant challenge in determining the indications and appropriate approach for surgical removal while limiting postoperative morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study is to use the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database to compare outcomes of transcervical and transthoracic approaches for retrosternal goiter removal an...

Thyroid Surgery- Goiter

In the 1960s, with the release of the fifth Italian edition of E. Kaufmann’s, prestigious Trattato di Anatomia Patologica Speciale (Vallardi), edited by Alfonso Giordano, the renown Milanese pathologist, I was amazed (puzzled, to say the least) to read struma in the feminine gender: for years I had been taught the term was masculine (lo struma). Even today, many others (like me) have a predilec...

Endemic goiter--an update.

“Goiter” means thyroid enlargement, and “endemic” means frequent in a certain locality. The problem is from what volume and up a thyroid is considered to be large enough as to be classified as goiter and also from what prevalence and up an area is considered to be endemic. It is obvious that by playing with these definitions one may increase or decrease the prevalence of goiter perceived in an ...

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