goitre

Incidentally, hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism can occur even without a goiter. In the PSEM study, only half of Filipinos who have hyperthyroidism had goiters while only one in six to 10 of those with hypothyroidism and other conditions had enlarged thyroid gland.

Total thyroidectomy is reserved for patients with severe disease or large goiters in whom recurrences would be highly problematic but has an increased risk of hyperparathyroidism and laryngeal nerve damage.

Management of patients with substernal goiters. Surg Clin North Am.

Missed thyroid gland should be differentiated from autonomous intrathoracic goiter (AIG), which is a thyroid gland formation located in the thorax or the mediastinum, has no parenchymatous or vascular connections with the cervical thyroid gland, and is fed by thoracic vessels.

Surgical management of recurrent and intrathoracic goiters. In: Clark OH, Duh Q-Y, Kebebew E, editors.

Fetal goiter is a very uncommon disorder found during the pregnancy of healthy women without familial thyroid pathology or iodine deficiency.

Substernal goiters are found in 5.1-15.7% of patients who undergo thyroid surgery [1, 2, 5-9].

Makay, "Less than total thyroidectomy for goiter: when and how?," Gland Surgery, vol.

In this article, we describe our study of carcinoma in multinodular goiters and compare its incidence in dominant and nondominant nodules.

showed a reduction in nodular size after metformin therapy in patients with insulin resistance and small thyroid nodular goiters, that was not confirmed in larger clinical studies [47, 48].

Mass lesions of the head and neck, including multinodular goiters, have been reported to cause bradycardia, pauses, or syncope [2, 3].

Then, thirty goiters with fibrosis and thirty papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) were randomly selected from the database of our hospital, matched the sizes of 27 nodules at the end point of observation.