[Morphological characteristics of various thyroid pathologies in the population living in a technogenically polluted area].
The impact of industrial pollutions on the thyroid is one of the main causes of thyroid diseases. Intraoperative thyroid samples from 144 patients residing in some technogenically polluted towns of the Saratov Region were the subject of the study. The morphological features of various thyroid abnormalities were directly correlated with the level of environmental pollution with heavy metal salts that might play a leading role in the occurrence of goiter transformation. The exception is diffuse toxic goiter wherein such relationship has not been revealed. The correlation of thyroid pathology groups with Saratov districts having a heavy metal salt-polluted snow cover enables one to identify risk areas for their inhabitants.
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