Treatment of Goitre

Treatment of Goitre with Iodine

The Treatment of Parenchymatous Goitre

principle the correction and removal of the factors responsible for producing the diseased state, and in addition it is usually found that the organ or organs affected demand rest, physical, physiological, or both. The aetiology of parenchymatous goitre has been discussed ad nauseam, and it is only proposed here to pick out of the medley of theoretical observations a few of the facts that seem ...

Radioiodine treatment of multinodular non-toxic goitre.

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...

Surgical Treatment of Goitre in Tibet

In the I. M. Gazette for June and October, 1913, appeared articles advocating the more general surgical treatment of Goitre in India; so the notes of a few cases treated in the Civil Hospital, Gryantse, during the last few months may be of some interest. I agree with the writers of the above articles that this is an operation which may be undertaken without any difficulties or complications; th...

Occurrence of goitre during lithium treatment.

Of 330 patients given lithium for recurrent manic-depressive disorder 12 developed goitre after treatment periods of five months to two years. All the patients remained clinically euthyroid. Pressure symptoms necessitated subtotal thyroidectomy in two patients. In 9 out of 10 patients with goitre, and in two out of seven without goitre study with radioactive iodine showed abnormal findings in i...