Surgical Thyroid Disease in Northern Thailand

摘要: STUDIES in geographic pathology provide exceptional opportunities to examine familiar diseases special environments which there may be significant local differences important variables. Particularly fertile fields for inquiry are found some developing countries geographically limited populations often represent a stage of health care no longer extant other parts the world. Northern Thailand is an area Southeast Asia iodine deficiency goiter endemic. 1 Iodized salt was not made available population this region until late 1965, and then only very areas. In addition, affected mobile patients with thyroid disease tend reside areas they were born. Diseases unusually good example changing patterns health: thyrotoxicosis 2,3 nodular colloid declining 4 while increasing incidence