[The structural-functional status of the thyroid in patients with nodular goiter evacuated from the 30-kilometer zone of the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].
An analysis was performed of results of ultrasonic and hormonal investigations in 239 patients with nodular goiter revealed in a screening-type clinical and laboratory examination of the 3371 persons evacuated from the 30-km zone of ChNPP, at their ages randing between 18 to 68 years. In 84.20% of patients in the group who took part in the elimination of effects of the Chernobyl accident (PEEA)--"PEEA + the evacuated"--the diameter of the nodules did not exceed 1 cm, in 6.1% it ranged from 1 to 2 cm, and in 13.41% it exceeded 2 cm. Distribution of nodules in the group "the evacuated" did not differ much from that in the above group. In 20% of patients with nodular goiter, there were functional disturbances concurrent with the autoimmune processes. No effects were detected of small doses of extra irradiation on the pattern of structural-and-functional indices in patients with nodular goiter evacuated from the 30-km zone of ChNPP who took part in EEA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000906:Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D006044:Goiter, Nodular / Q000097:blood / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011210:Power Plants; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D013954:Thyroglobulin / Q000276:immunology / Q000528:radiation effects; D013960:Thyroid Function Tests; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000528:radiation effects*; D013972:Thyrotropin / Q000097:blood / Q000528:radiation effects; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000097:blood / Q000528:radiation effects; D014455:Ukraine; D014463:Ultrasonography
D000906:Antibodies; D013972:Thyrotropin; D013954:Thyroglobulin; D013974:Thyroxine