Relationship of Iodine to "Lymphocytic Goiters"

摘要: Lymphocytic infiltrates in the thyroid gland are found a variety of diseases: Hashimoto's disease, lymphocytic thyroiditis, thyrotoxicosis, nodular goiters, and relation to neoplasms gland. The degree replacement parenchyma by lymphocytes varies from diffuse thyroiditis focal often small accumulations goiters carcinomas. A recent survey1of surgical diseases at University Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, demonstrated significant change morphological appearance glands following introduction iodine for therapy (1922) prophylaxis (1924). salient histopathological feature glands, removed operation five-year period before (1915 1920), was thepaucityof their parenchyma, and, more importantly, theabsenceof any form. After therapeutic prophylactic use iodine, steadily