In the surroundings of mountainous area, many people are suffering from goiter due to low iodine contents in their diet. This study was aimed at examining T3, T4, and TSH concentration of the norplant and IUD acceptors for 6 months. The acceptors were from an endemic goiter area in Cangkringan, Sleman, Yogyakarta. The results of this study showed that T3, T4 and TSH were in the normal range but…
Antithyroid drug is a group of drugs which has a direct inhibitive effect on thyroid hormon synthesis. Some of them have been used widely to control hiperthyrodism for a short as well as for a longer period of time. Clinically antithyroid is given to patients while waiting for the remission of their hyperthyroidism; it is also used in combination with radioactive iodine, or in preparing a patie…
One of the changes that involves thyroid metabolism and function in normal pregnancy as well as in molar pregnancy is the increase of TBG (thyroxine binding globulin) concentration which may cause misinterpretation of thyroid function. The aim of this study is to evaluate the TBG concentration in molar pregnancy in comparison with that in the normal pregnancy. The study was concluded using the …
Anaplastic (undifferentiated) carcinoma of thyroid is a highly malignant tumor. This can be developed directly (denovo) but also indirectly a well-differentiated tumor. In case a speciment shows both undifferentiated and well-differentiated characteristic, we can firmly concluded that the undifferentiated tumor is a transformation form of the well-differentiated tumor. The following is a case s…
Background: Abnormal DNA content and proliferative activity of tumor has been considered as an additional criteria for determining the biological behavior of a tumor. In order to differientiate the adenomatous, adenoma and carcinomas of the thyroid, DNA distribution pattern and the fraction of cell in synthesis phase of cell were studied. Methods : Flowcytometric DNA analysis was done on 71 pat…