Huda Elsafi Gafer

Assessment of the urinary iodine excretion in multinodular goiter / تقييم اليود فى البول عند مرضى تضخم الغدد الدرقية العقيدية Huda Elsafi Gafer ; Supervised Rokaia Abdalaziz Mohammed , Tarek Heshamt , Sahar Abdalaty - Cairo : Huda Elsafi Gafer , 2011 - 166 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine

Iodine is needed for the production of thyroid hormone . It is released from the body through the urine . Thyroid nodule single and multiple are associated with change in urinary iodine excretion . The best way to determine iodine deficiency across a large population is to measure the amounts of iodine in urine sample



Multinodular goiter Thyroid nodule Urinary iodine excretion