Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, the most common cause of goiter is Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, says Dr. Barlow. This is an autoimmune disorder ...

A 38-year-old, African-American woman was referred for postsurgical hypothyroidism and recurrent goiter. She had undergone total thyroidectomy (for the second time) 5 years previously for multinodular ...

"A century ago, much of northern America was known as the goiter belt," said The Economist. A lack of natural iodine in the soil and water, and an iodine-poor diet, led to the "characteristic neck ...