The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of goiter in schoolchildren in a formerly iodine-deficient region in southern Brazil by assessing the relationship between body surface area (m2 ) and thyroid volume (ml) measured by ultrasonography. A population-based sample of 1,094 randomly selected schoolchildren (6 to 14 years; 556 boys and 538 girls) underwent clinical evaluation...

Epidemiology Goiter: In iodine-deficient areas, goiter prevalence may be as high as 80%. After correction of iodine deficiency, prevalence decreases slowly over a generation’s time to but not below a few per cent. In iodine-sufficient areas, cross-sectional studies showed a decline in frequency of diffuse goiter and, in contrast, an increase of thyroid nodules and thyroid antibodies with age. F...

BACKGROUND Many authors have claimed that hyperthyroidism protects against thyroid cancer and believed that the incidence of malignancy is lower in patients with toxic multinodular goiter (TMG) than in those with non-toxic multinodular goiter. But in recent studies, it was reported that the incidence of malignancy with TMG is not as low as previously thought. AIM To compare the thyroid cancer...

The usefulness of selective embolization thyroid arteries in the treatment voluminous goiters is reported on a 55-year-old patient with grade 3 goiter. Selective arteriography was used to embolize arteries. Radiological reduced volume goiter significantly, resolving compressive symptoms, improving dysphonia and respiratory mechanics, maintaining normal function. before resection can successfull...

Fetal goiter is an uncommon, serious problem during pregnancy. Careful routine antenatal ultrasound screening can find out an intrauterine fetal goiter. Fetal goiter has an incidence of 1:40000 live births (1). 80% of cases are caused by dysgenesis of the thyroid gland. The rest 5% and 15% are due to hypothalamohypophyseal abnormalities and dyshormonogenesis, respectively. 8% of cases are due t...

BACKGROUND Relapsing polychondritis is a rare disease characterised by inflammation of cartilaginous and proteoglycan rich structures. As there are only a few published single centre case series from all across the world, we describe our experience with 26 patients at a tertiary centre in north India. METHODS A retrospective study with all patients meeting Damiani and Levine's modification of...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine risk factors for decannulation failure after laryngotracheal reconstruction performed at a single institution over a 10-year period. STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective cohort study. METHODS The study population included 95 adult patients who underwent laryngotracheal reconstruction at a single tertiary care medical center between 2003 and 2012. Data were...

in order to investigate goiter prevalence in boyer-ahmad, an iranian tribal province, 87 families were randomly selected in yasuj township and doruhan county. clinical examination of the subjects disclosed 95% of females and 87% of males over 6 years of age to be goitrous. grade 2 goiter had the highest prevalence among females. in males grade 1 b was the most prevalent. hormonal studies on a s...

The mountain slopes of the Himalayas, Alps, Pyrenees, and Andes have been the world’s most notorious foci of endemic goiter (1). The northern frontiers of India extending from Kashmir in the west to Assam in the east form an extensive Himalayan goiter belt (2). Forty million persons are believed to be exposed to the risk ofgoiter in this belt and approximately nine million are afflicted with it...