Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: October-December | Volume: 4 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 76-80
Incidence of Thyroid Disorders in Central India: Retrospective Analysis at Rural Tertiary Care Hospital
Dr. Raju Wamanrao Gore1, Dr. Ramesh Pandey2, Dr. Dilip O. Gupta3
1Assistant Professor, Shri Vasantrao Naik Government Medical College Yavatmal, Maharashtra.
2Associate Professor, 3Professor and Head,
Department of Surgery, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra, India 442102
Corresponding Author: Dr. Ramesh Pandey
ABSTRACT
Introduction: The interplay between inflammatory and neoplastic disorder is a matter of controversy in thyroid. Thyroid disease is being increasingly diagnosed with greater awareness and is one of the chronic non-communicable disease affecting women more though male population is not spared of the ailment.
Material and methods: The retrospective analysis of 194 cases irrespective of their age and sex were considered carried out for five years (May 2012- 2016). Patients presenting with infective pathology and traumatic origin were excluded from the study.
Results: Among thyroid disorders, 34 (17.52%) were males and 160 (82.47%) were females and the prevalence of disorders was significantly higher in females. Thyroid cancers was in 64 patients accounting 33 % of total cases with highest being of papillary cancers 39, followed by follicular type 17, anaplastic type 3 and medullary type 5 and 3 cases shows regional metastasis. Further, 117 (60.3%) of patients showed benign conditions 06 had follicular adenoma, colloid goiter 51, multinodular goiter 44, eight patients have autoimmune Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and solitary thyroid nodule were reported in eighteen cases. Of total 194 cases, 69 hemithyroidectomy, 64 total thyoridectomy, 44 subtotal thyroidectomy and 3 completion thyroidectomy done.
Conclusions: The untreated thyroid disease can produce serious consequences to the body especially cardio vascular and central nervous system diseases. So improved public awareness and understanding of thyroid disorders is essential among patients and their families to cope with the thyroid illness.
Key words: Thyroid disorder, thyroidectomy.