[Clinico-morphological comparisons of autoimmune processes in the thyroid gland in the endemic goiter region].
A total of 2558 patients (95% of patients who sustained strumectomy in the Chelyabinsk region in 1969--1977 for euthyroid nodular goiter) were examined. There proved to be a relationship between the iodine content in the food products of the population and the frequency of the morphologically-definable autoimmune processes in the thyroid gland; this dependence was direct for the marked autoaggression processes, and indirect--for the initial ones. This dependence is also confirmed by a rare combination of multinodular goiter with diffuse autoimmune thyroiditis and a frequent one--with the initial autoaggression forms.
D000328:Adult; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006043:Goiter, Endemic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007455:Iodine / Q000172:deficiency; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012800:Siberia; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D013966:Thyroiditis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology
D007455:Iodine
Kliniko-morfologicheskie sopostavleniia autoimmunnykh protssessov shchitovidnoĭ zhelezy v endemichnoĭ po zobu mestnosti.