[Gabonese thyroid pathology in a hospital milieu in Libreville: 137 cases]

From November 1991 to December 1996, 158 patients of whom 137 were Gabonese were examined at the Hospital Center of Libreville (department of internal medicine "B") for a thyroid disorder. The retrospective analysis of their files showed a large majority of women (94.2%) and the main diseases were euthyroidgoiter (54.7%), Graves'disease(13.1%), hypothyroidism (8.8%), thyroiditis (6.6%), toxic multinodular goiter (6.6%) while about 10% of goiters remained unclassified.