MEDICAL TREATMENT OF EXOPHTHALMIC GOITER.

Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Medical Treatment

would remain in the way of novelty to be disclosed by the latest edition of the newest text-book. True enough, Doctor Snow failed to point out the supremely unimportant facts that the "morbid material . . . most likely . . . a cell" is monotrichic, and that a cholera-red reaction may be obtained, but for sheer downright common sense his concept of cholera is commendable. It is too easy, with th...

Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Medical Treatment

Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Non-Surgical Treatment

Surgical Treatment. -By Israel Bram, m.d. C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, 1920. Thk author should entertain no fear that his book may not be tolerated: it rather requires a welcome. The whole subject of Graves' disease is carefully reviewed: no new theories of its pathogenesis are advanced, but the author inclines to the view that the hyperthyroidism of the disease is itself an incidental produ...

MEDICAL TREATMENT OF TOXIC GOITER IN AN AREA OF IODINE DEFICIENCY

The response to methimazole [1-methyl-2-mercapto-imidazole (MMI)] therapy, 10 mg twice daily in 15 patients and propylthiouracil (P TU) therapy, 100mg twice daily in 10 patients with diffuse toxic goiter was evaluated in an area of iodine deficiency (Tehran). The mean free T4 index (FT4I) decreased from 22.7± 6.8 (± SD) to 10.8± 2.8 In MMI-treated, and from 25.1± 6.8 to 13.2± 2.1 in PTU-tr...

Surgical treatment of retrosternal goiter.

BACKGROUND The definition of substernal goiter is not uniform and varies among authors. We can define substernal--or retrosternal-goiter a thyroid formation with cervical departure that goes beyond the superior thoracic strait for at least 3 cm and that preserves, generally, the connections between the cervical and thoracic portion, maintaining a direct vascularization supplied by the thyroid a...