Prior to treatment with I - 131 a nuclear medicine thyroid scan will be performed to confirm the diagnosis and make sure the appearance of the thyroid tissue is compatible with
thyroid hyperplasia versus thyroid cancer.
Dramatic synergism between excess soybean intake and iodine deficiency on the development of rat
thyroid hyperplasia.
Not exact matches
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Thyroid irradiated by mistake by a doctor treating a nasal polyp and adenoid regrowth when I was 10 y.o. • Early 20s: multi-nodular goiter with hyperplasia, hypothyroid, treatment was thyroid suppression with Syn
Thyroid irradiated by mistake by a doctor treating a nasal polyp and adenoid regrowth when I was 10 y.o. • Early 20s: multi-nodular goiter with
hyperplasia, hypothyroid, treatment was
thyroid suppression with Syn
thyroid suppression with Synthroid.
It is typically caused by a benign
hyperplasia (overgrowth) of the
thyroid gland.
Cats have two
thyroid glands, and in most cases (more than 70 %) both are involved in the disease, and become enlarged (a change called «nodular
hyperplasia», which resembles a very benign tumour).
The most common cause of the disease is benign
hyperplasia of the
thyroid gland; only 1 % to 2 % of cases are caused by malignant tumours.
More than 80 % of hyperthyroid cats have a condition known as «
hyperplasia», resulting in excessive function and enlargement of both
thyroid lobes.
Feline hyperthyroidism is caused by overproduction of
thyroid hormones that is most commonly due to either a benign tumor or
hyperplasia (excess tissue growth), though there is a risk of it being due to a malignant
thyroid tumor.
For example, certain biological events during early development, such as excessive androgen production, exposure to synthetic androgens,
thyroid dysfunction, Cushing's disease, and congenital adrenal
hyperplasia, can combine with environmental influences to predispose women to antisocial behavior.69 Additionally, EEG research has uncovered asymmetries in the frontal activation of antisocial females» brains.70 Normative males and females tend to exhibit asymmetric frontal brain activation, with boys having greater right frontal activation and girls having greater left frontal activation.