Tissue Respiration of Thyroidgland Obtaind from Exophthalmic Goiter, Toxic Goiter and Simple 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 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...

Exophthalmic Goiter and Its Medical Treatment

Iodinating activity of thyroid tissue in toxic diffuse goiter.

Thyroid tissue obtained from 12 patients with Graves' disease and treated with thionamide drugs for 3-7 mo before subtotal thyroidectomy, from 12 patients with Graves' disease, similarly treated, and given 50 mug of triiodothyronine (T3) for 10 days before surgery, and from 12 euthyroid patients with solitary cold nodules was investigated to compare in vitro iodination of thyroglobulin in toxic...

Long -Term Outcome Therapy of Toxic Diffuse Goiter in Tehran

SUMMARY In order to evaluate the long-ter m effects of antithyroids and ahlative therapy on patients with toxic diffuse goiter (TDG) in an iodine deficient region, 206 patients were studied in Tehran. Hyperthyroidism recurred in 50%, of 80 patients treated with Methimazole (MMI), from one week to 48 months after cessation of therapy. Another 40 patients remained in remission. Of 102 patients t...