Overview
... Goiter is an enlargement of your thyroid gland. The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland weighing less than an ounce, located just below your Adam''s apple. Hormones produced by your thyroid gla...

Overview
... Your thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of your neck, just below your Adam''s apple. Although it weighs less than an ounce, the thyroid gland has an enormous effect on your health...

Thyrotoxic Myopathy Information Page
... Thyrotoxic myopathy is a neuromuscular disorder that may accompany hyperthyroidism (Grave's disease, caused by overproduction of the thyroid hormone thyroxine). Symptoms may include muscle weaknes...

Pendred syndrome
... Pendred syndrome is a genetic condition associated with deafness and goiter (an enlargement of the thyroid gland, which is a structure in the lower neck that produces hormones). Some people with Pendr...

Graves'' Disease
... Graves' Disease is a type of autoimmune disease in which the immune system over stimulates the thyroid gland, causing hyperthyroidism. Over-activity of the thyroid gland is also sometimes called &...

Hashimoto''s Thyroiditis
... Hashimoto's Thyroiditis is a type of autoimmune thyroid disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys the thyroid gland. The thyroid helps set the rate of metabolism - the rate at which ...

Congenital hypothyroidism
... Congenital hypothyroidism is a condition that affects infants from birth (congenital) and results from a partial or complete loss of thyroid function (hypothyroidism). The thyroid gland is a butterfly...