BACKGROUND: Toxic multinodular goiter (Plummer's disease) has posed challenges to surgeons, endocrinologists, and radiation oncologists since its description in 1913. A literature review with ...

Toxic goiter affects the brain more than was previously known, a new study shows, and involves volume changes occurring in central parts of the brain. These findings are described as a key advance for ...

Toxic goiter affects the brain more than was previously known, a University of Gothenburg study shows, and involves volume changes occurring in central parts of the brain. These findings are described ...

Toxic goiter affects the brain more than was previously known, a University of Gothenburg study shows, and involves volume changes occurring in central parts of the brain. These findings are described ...

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Goiter is an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland, the butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the neck. While iodine deficiency is a major global cause, both too little and too much iodine can ...

The patient was a 28-year-old woman in excellent health, a nonsmoker without any known medical condition or medication. She was 5 months' pregnant (her first pregnancy) when the thyroid problem ...

RECENT studies on sporadic goitrous cretinism 1–5 have called attention to the interesting paradox of hypothyroidism associated with a hyperplastic nodular goiter. These studies have demonstrated an ...

A mother of one, Mrs Oyewole Ibhafidon with an anterior neck swelling (nontoxic multinodular goiter), needs N1million for a life-saving surgery. According to Ibhafidon, the goiter was making breathing ...