Endemic Cretinism

Known as: goitrous cretinism, cretinism, Cretinism, Endemic

Severely reduced physical and mental growth associated with pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs and symptoms, due to dietary iodine deficiency.

National Institutes of Health

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2015

In the past few years Kenya has become increasingly insecure. Internally, it has experienced rampant banditry that continues to…

2015

Nodding syndrome (NS) is a poorly understood condition, which was delineated in 2008 as a new epilepsy syndrome. So far…

Review

1997

Review

1997

The issue of practice skills arose in the course of a process evaluation of the Heart Smart North Shore (HSNS) project in British…

1985

Although Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in cultured Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) cells, its exact role remains unclear. Viral…

1975

The experiments in this article were designed to establish an animal model analogous to human athyrotic cretinism without…

1973

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1954

CRETINISM in the United Kingdom is commonly sporadic and athyroidic; iodine intake is adequate but functional thyroid tissue is…

1935