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NCM 116 Lecture ENDOCRINE Pituitary Gland Thyroid Gland Disorders
NCM 116 Lecture ENDOCRINE Pituitary Gland Thyroid Gland Disorders
NCM 116 Lecture ENDOCRINE Pituitary Gland Thyroid Gland Disorders
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Clinical Conditions:
1. Crentinism (children)
2
hormone
production
c. Thyroidectomy
Simple Goiter
Enlargement of the thyroid gland not caused
by inflammation or neoplasm
a. Endemic – caused by nutritional Idodine
deficiency
b. Sporadic – caused by ingestion or large
amounts of goiterogenic agents:
Cabbage, soybeans, peanuts, peaches,
peas, strawberries, spinach, radish.
Thyroiditis
Inflammatory process in the thyroid
Thyroid tissue is replaced by fibrous tissue
Stress aggravates these autoimmune process
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis