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Published on: October 19, 2011
[The effect of emotional stressors on thyroid gland function]
Abstract:
Response of the normal and goiterous thyroid gland to the information on the forthcoming operation was studied in 12 patients with varicose veins of the lower limbs and in 67 patients with thyrotoxicosis; this was done by determination of protein-bound iodine (PBI). PBI proved to increase before the operation in both groups of the patients. Due to undesirable hyperfunction of the thyroid gland prior to the operation in thyrotoxicosis, the psychodepressive premedication component should be increased.
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