DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND

The present volume is written from the author's large surgical and pathological experience with patients having disorders of the thyroid gland. Sections are devoted to the normal morphology of the thyroid gland and its general pathology. The various manifestations of thyroid gland disorders in childhood, non-toxic and toxic nodular goiters, and diffuse toxic goiter are treated in regard to pathogenesis, pathology, clinical manifestations, and treatment. In addition accounts of the inflammatory states of the thyroid gland, myxedema, thyroidal neoplasms, and aberrant goiters are given. A special chapter is devoted to the important relationship between toxic goiter and heart disease under the designation “cardiotoxic goiter.” The hospital management of goiter patients, including pre- and post-operative care, the complications of surgery, and the after-course of the patients are treated at length. Finally there are sections on surgical anatomy and the technique of operative procedures.