A goiter is an enlarged thyroid gland and can occur for several reasons. It doesn’t always affect hormone levels, and treatment isn’t always necessary. But medications, iodine, and surgery can treat ...

We present the case of an 82-year-old woman with progressive dyspnea, hoarseness, and dysphagia due to a large substernal ...

IN THE therapeutic attack on malignant tumors in general, the accumulated experience of generations has established as virtually axiomatic certain well defined principles. The first is the folly of ...

Nontoxic thyroid goiter is a common disorder characterized by a diffuse or nodular enlargement of the thyroid gland. It is caused by chronic stimulation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), and is ...

Thyroidectomy is among the most commonly performed procedures involving the endocrine glands and the development of advanced surgical methods combined with a strife for performing the operation in a ...

Mammography showed heterogeneously dense breasts without signs of malignancy. MRI of the brain revealed a right cerebellar mass with radiologic features of dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma (Figures ...

At the Congress of American Physicians & Surgeons in Washington last fortnight and at the American Association for the Study of Goiter in Memphis last week, staff men from the great medical clinics ...

A 38-year-old, African-American woman was referred for postsurgical hypothyroidism and recurrent goiter. She had undergone total thyroidectomy (for the second time) 5 years previously for multinodular ...

Goiter is a frightening condition which is associated with the swelling of the thyroid gland. Goiter can be understood as an overall enlargement of the thyroid glands or may be a result of an ...