Thyroid complications resulting from excess iodide such as thyrotoxicosis, thyroiditis, sialadenitis, or hypothyroidism are much rarer after iodine supplementation with Lipiodol than with KI. They do not militate against its widespread use in endemic goiter populations, especially in pregnant women. However, patients with multinodular goiter should not be treated or should be treated only under...

The thyroid gland is dependent on dietary iodine for the production of thyroid hormones, normal iodine requirement being about 150-200 microg/day. Long-term deficiency in iodine intake is associated with the development of goiter. When the prevalence of goiter in a population rises above 5-10%, the problem is considered endemic. Greece is a country with a recent history of moderate iodine defic...

Aim: To compare patients with toxic and non-toxic nodular/multinodular goiter in terms of clinical, sonographical cytological features.
 Material Method: The medical data 326 were reviewed retrospectively. Clinical sonographic features examined. Four hundred eighty-one nodules compared sonographically cytologically. One twenty-four had nodular 202 them goiter.
 Results: group was olde...

ectopic thyroid tissue (ett) is a rare entity and a challenging differential diagnosis. this is a report of a case of a mediastinal mass that was found to be an ectopic mediastinal thyroid tissue, in a 77-year-old woman who was admitted to our hospital for breast cancer management. the mediastinal mass was identified in the postsurgical computed tomography (ct) scan of the chest and was suspect...

The purpose of this study is to look at the prevalence of laryngopharyngeal reflux disease in patients with goiter in a group of 52 patients with goiter. All participants were asked to respond to the 9 questions on the Reflux Symptom Index (RSI). A diagnosis of LPRD based on symptoms was made for any RSI score above 10. The average score of every question was computed for all patients with goit...

Background: Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) has been recognized as a public health problem in India. Surveys conducted in various states show that no state in the country is free from IDD. Since the program of Salt Iodization has been in progress for many decades, it is imperative to carry out Goiter surveys in the community on periodic basis to see the impact. The current study is part of a ...

BACKGROUND Endemic goiter is present in most parts of Iran. Iron deficiency adversely affects the physiology of thyroid. The initial steps of thyroid hormone synthesis are catalyzed by thyroperoxidases and are dependent on iron. In many developing countries, children are at high risk of both goiter and iron deficiency anemia. In addition, iron deficiency may alter central nervous system control...