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LEWIS B. WOOLNER, M.D. and
WARREN A. BENNETT, M.D.
Section of Surgical Pathology and Section of Pathologic Anatomy, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation Rochester, Minnesota
BASIC and essential to reliable understanding of the disorders of anybodily organ or system is thorough knowledge of the minute gross and histologic anatomic characteristics of that organ. The pathologic findings observed must then be correlated with clinical observations under various circumstances of health, physiologic alterations and pathologic deviations. In reference to the thyroid gland, such basic pathologic data have been rather slow to accumulate because often the routine necropsy does not include removal of the entire gland. Even when the thyroid is removed, a systematic, minute study of the gland is rarely undertaken as part of the routine examination if the gland appears normal externally or when bisected.
In order, then, to obtain additional basic pathologic data concerning the thyroid gland, the following study was undertaken.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: The thyroid gland was removed en toto from each of 1,000 subjects undergoing routine consecutive postmortem examination in the Section of Pathologic Anatomy of the Mayo Clinic from July 1, 1951 through June 30, 1953.
This article will be included in the bound volume of the 1955 "Transactions of the American Goiter Association" published by Charles C Thomas, Publisher, which will be available early in 1956.
* Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Goiter Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 28 to 30, 1955.
Fellow in Surgery, the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota. The Foundation is a part of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.
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