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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SYMPTOMLESS THYROID GLANDS REMOVED AT AUTOPSY AND HYPERFUNCTIONING GOITERS OPERATIVELY REMOVED

CARL O. RICE, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1932;24(3):505-515.

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The presence of nodules within an otherwise normal thyroid gland is well recognized. Whether or not these nodules have any definite significance has long been a debated question. It has been thought that they represent developmental processes that occur in the natural course of development and indicate no significant feature. They have also been considered as involutional bodies, representative of the stages in hyperthyroid diseases, and they have been looked on as true tumors arising from germinal centers and having the significance of benign neoplasms. Whichever may be the case, their definite significance has never been proved.

If one is to establish the normal for a given district by assuming that the majority represents the normal, then one must accept the presence of nodules in the thyroid gland as a normal characteristic in Minnesota. It is, however, more probable that these nodules represent an attempt to establish a physiologically normal . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MINNEAPOLIS

From the Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, July 13, 1931.

Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Surgery.

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