EFFECT OF TOTAL THYROIDECTOMY UPON EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED MENSTRUATION IN MATURE OVARIECTOMIZED MONKEYS1

Autor: Edgar Allen, T. H. Burford, A. W. Diddle
Rok vydání: 1936
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Zdroj: Endocrinology. 20:635-638
ISSN: 1945-7170
0013-7227
DOI: 10.1210/endo-20-5-635
Popis: Menstrual irregularities associated with thyroid dysfunction have long been a source of interest and comment to the clinician, and few treatises on disturbances of menstruation fail to detail the effects of exophthalmic goiter, toxic adenomata, and myxedema upon the character of the menstrual cycle. That these discussions are often contradictory serves to emphasize the variability of the effects. Certain generalizations, however, seem justified (1, 2); a) menorrhagia is more commonly associated with myxedema, b) the menstrual disturbance in exophthalmic goiter is most commonly amenorrheic, and c) the clinical syndrome of toxic adenoma of the thyroid is less often associated with menstrual irregularities. The importance of the thyroid in endocrine therapy in certain types of menstrual disorder is emphasized by the following statement from Pratt (3, p. 910): “Up to the present time more convincing results in correction of menstrual abnormalities have been obtained by empirical use of thyroid administered or...
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