Thyroid gland: age-concerned features of the structure, and latent pathology
Author: T.S. Mukhina
Reference: Dissertation, candidate of medical sciences, Volgograd, 2008
Keywords: age dependence, morphology, structural features
Abstract: Increased incidence of thyroid cancer in many regions of Russia determines the relevance of the study of regional structural features of the body and the clinicopathologic features of benign and malignant tumors, of which differential diagnosis in preoperative stage can be extremely difficult (Romanchishen AF, 1992; Paches AI, Propp PM, 1995; Khmelnitsky OK, 2002). Especially, interest in the problems of thyroidology increased in the period after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Urgent study of radiogenic thyroid cancer became highly actual, for which the position remains still controversial (Lushnikov EF Tsib AF, Yamashita, S., 2006). …
The purpose of the study: To determine 1.the structural features of the thyroid gland in the mature, older and old age and 2. morphological features of latent disease, on the basis of complex morphological and morphometric research.