Reference is made to the complete disappearance of goiters by the administration of desiccated thyroid. However, some of these nontoxic nodular hyperplastic goiters are of long duration and from their ...

In the United States, the most common cause of goiter is Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, says Dr. Barlow. This is an autoimmune disorder that causes hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid.