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[The surgical treatment of the nodular goiter].

open access: yesAnnali italiani di chirurgia, 2008
The simple nodular goiter, the etiology of which is multifactorial, encompasses the spectrum from the incidental asymptomatic small solitary nodule to the large intrathoracic goiter, causing pressure symptoms as well as cosmetic complaints. The mainstay in the diagnostic evaluation is related to functional and morphological characterization with serum ...
Rosa Pelizzo M.   +6 more
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Nodular goiters in children

The American Journal of Surgery, 1955
Abstract The treatment of choice for congenital goiter causing respiratory obstruction is thyroidectomy. This operation should be as radical in children as in adults. X-ray therapy to the thymus gland may be hazardous and internal irradiation with radioactive iodine is accompanied by a striking increase in the incidence of Hashimoto's thyroiditis ...
W J, NORRIS, W F, POLLOCK
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THE TREATMENT OF NODULAR GOITER

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1952
THE clinical course of nodular goiter is varied. The thyroid nodule may remain unchanged for long periods of time; it may grow and exert pressure on neighboring structures; it may degenerate or be the site of hemorrhage; it may be neoplastic and infiltrate adjacent tissues or metastasize; rarely it may hyperfunction within itself, or, more commonly, be
L, HERMANSON, S L, GARGILL, M F, LESSES
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Sequestered Nodular Goiter

New England Journal of Medicine, 1964
THE possibility that the mechanical action of neck muscles can, in rare cases, sever a projecting portion of the thyroid gland has been recognized for over fifty years.1 This process is most likely to occur in a nodular colloid goiter. Cases of colloid nodules separate from the thyroid gland were excluded from several series describing the malignant so-
J C, SISSON   +2 more
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- Diffuse and Nodular Goiter

open access: yes, 2012
The term goiter refers to an enlarged thyroid gland, in the absence of autoimmune thyroid diseases and thyroid cancer. The traditional classification of goiter typically includes the endemic, sporadic and familiar forms.
LATROFA, FRANCESCO   +3 more
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