In order to start a goitre prevention program in Shahriar area, a survey of the disease prevalence and possible contributory factors was conducted. Three hundred and sixty seven households chosen randomly, were surveyed as to their economic, sociocultural and goitre status. Urinary excretion of iodine and iodine content of water in the area was measured. Food consumption survey demonstrated tha...

Retrosternal goitre presents in 2 - 19% of all thyroidectomies. Surgical removal is the treatment choice. We report a case an anterior retrosternal goitre, which was removed by combined cervical/sternotomy approach.

INTRODUCTION Previous studies of goitre in Sri Lanka proposed the presence of a goitre belt, which was refuted subsequently. Epidemiology of goitre in the post iodization era needs re-evaluation. Objectives To describe the epidemiology of goitre in Sri Lanka. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in designated zones except in conflict areas in 2006/2007. An interviewer adm...

BACKGROUND The incidence and potential risk factors for the recurrence of benign nodular goitre after unilateral thyroidectomy are not clearly defined. The aim of this study was to assess the rate of progression of nodular goitre in the contralateral thyroid lobe and of hypothyroidism requiring replacement therapy after unilateral thyroid lobectomy for benign nodular goitre. PATIENTS AND METH...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to determine the interaction of and association between frequency of goitre detected by palpation, nutritional status evaluated by anthropometric indices and socio-economic status in school-aged children. SUBJECTS One thousand and eighteen prepubertal and pubertal children (aged 6-14 years) attending primary schools in an urban area were included in ...

Thyroid disease is a common paediatric disorder that affects up to 3.7% of school-aged children, and it usually presents with a goitre. By far, the most frequent cause of a goitre is autoimmune thyroid disease, although a benign colloid goitre is also a common cause. The present review focuses on the diagnostic approach to a child with a hypothyroid, hyperthyroid or euthyroid goitre.

The evidence implicating iodine deficiency in the aetiology of endemic goitre is overwhelming, and a deficiency of iodine in the diet has been accepted as the main cause of this condition (Kelly and Snedden, I960; Greer, I962; Wayne, Koutras, and Alexander, I964). Considerations of the quantitative aspects of iodine metabolism leave little doubt that in the presence of a sufficiently severe and...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Despite years of salt iodization, goitre continues to be a major public health problem worldwide. We examined the prevalence of goitre in the post-iodization phase and the relationship of goitre with micronutrient status and thyroid autoimmunity in school children of Chandigarh, north India. METHODS Two phase study; in the first phase, 2148 children of 6 to 16 yr were ...

Before the Royal Society of Medicine in the section of Epidemiology and State Medicine, on 28th April, 1933, Dr. P. H. J. Turton presented the results of his many years' work on the distribution of simple goitre in Derbyshire, which is of profound interest to those in contact with endemic goitre, 'and especially to those who have hesitated to discard the old view that endemic goitre in certain ...

an intrathoracic goitre is a thyroid gland with more than 50% of its mass located below the thoracic inlet. This term can be further classified as an “incomplete” or a “complete” intrathoracic goitre. When the goitre is “incomplete,” a major portion of the goitre on the neck is visible, with its lower pole being substernal, subclavicular or intrathoracic. Conversely, a “complete” or “true” intr...