title: [An epidemiological study of thyroid pathology in a group of hospitalized patients].
abstract: The epidemiological impact of thyroid disease was assessed in a group of in-patients from an area with a potential iodine deficiency. The overall frequency of thyroid disease in the three years studied was approximately 4.91%, with a prevalence of elderly patients and a bias towards the female sex of 8.14:1. Nodular, single and multiple lesions were observed in 3.74% of hospitalised patients, whereas malignant forms were limited to 1.98% of the patients with nodular pathologies. When thyrotoxic syndromes were classified it was found that there was a predominance of multinodular toxic goitres over Basedow's disease. These findings are discussed and compared to previously published data.
authors.affiliation: Stabilimento Ospedaliero di Maniago (Pordenone), USL n. 10, Maniaghese-Spilimberghese.
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authors.lastname: Bulfoni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Valutazione epidemiologica della patologia tiroidea in una casistica ospedaliera internistica.