[Latent thyroid cancer in the inhabitants of Kiev (based on autopsy study data)]

Thyroid glands obtained in post mortem examination of Kievites over the period of 1993 to 1994 were serially sectioned and subjected to pathomorphologic investigation that disclosed latent pathologic changes in 40.7 percent of the 162 cases, with struma maligna having been identified in 11.7 percent. This is significantly higher the currently known estimates of struma maligna morbidity rates, which fact suggests the need for devoting greater amount of time and effort to the thyroid abnormalities in the resident population of this region.