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Toxic Goitre
history of excessive perspiration three months previously, followed two weeks later by a "sweat rash." She became very fretful, refused her food, and did not sleep. There was marked photophobia. She was admitted to hospital, and kept on sedatives to procure sleep. She took her feeds better, but began to have a temperature; loose motions followed, and eventually she died of gastro-enteritis. In ...
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the long term effect of radioactive iodine on thyroid function and size in patients with non-toxic multinodular goitre. DESIGN Consecutive patients with multinodular non-toxic goitre selected for radioactive iodine treatment and followed for a minimum of 12 months (median 48 months) after an intended dose of 3.7 MBq/g thyroid tissue corrected to a 100% uptake of iodin...
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IN 1932, Cecil Joll, in his book "Diseases of the Thyroid Gland" emphasised that "although respiratory symptoms due to tracheal compression and alteration of voice were common", dysphagia was a "decidedly rare feature of simple goitre". Since then there has been little documentation on the subject. The following is an account of the symptoms found in a series of patients undergoing surgery for ...
متن کاملRadioiodine treatment for non-toxic goitre
There is no ideal treatment for benign multinodular goitre. Besides surgery, which is recommended for large goitres or when malignancy cannot be excluded, the non-surgical treatment options are levothyroxine therapy and radioiodine ((131)I) therapy. Conventional (131)I therapy [without recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone (rhTSH)] has been used for more than a decade in symptomatic non...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1948
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4541.123-b