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  eMedicine - Struma Ovarii : Article Excerpt by: Bradford W Fenton, MD, PhD
Background: Struma ovarii was first described in 1899 and is extremely rare, with only 150 reported cases in the medical literature.
Because of the nature of thyroid tissue in the ovary, the definition of malignancy and the management of struma have been debated by those who believe the tumor favors an ovarian versus a thyroid neoplasm.
Struma ovarii is defined by the presence of an ovarian tumor containing thyroid tissue as the predominant cell type.
www.emedicine.com /med/byname/struma-ovarii.htm   (386 words)

  
  Thyrotoxicosis from Cancer
Struma ovarii is a rare tumor occurring in a teratoma or dermoid in the ovary.
It is not advised to treat patients with thyrotoxic struma ovarii with radioiodide because of the possibility that the tumor is malignant, which cannot be determined on clinical grounds, and secondly because of the unknown radiation effects on the other elements of the teratoma.
Struma ovarii, in itself a rare tumor occurring in a teratoma or dermoid in the ovarium, rarely causes hyperthyroidism.
www.thyroidmanager.org /chapter13/Ch-13-7.htm   (1487 words)

  
 La Struma
Limping along the Struma manages to reach Istanbul Harbor and then it waits while Turkey trying to stay "neutral" in the war deliberates the passengers' fate.
Britain, enforcing its policy to limit Jewish immigration to Palestine, puts heavy pressure on the Turks not to let the ship pass through their territorial waters.
In 2000 using information from the sole survivor the grandson of two Struma passengers leads an international team of elite divers to find the watery grave of his grandparents.
www.brandeis.edu /jewishfilm/Catalogue/films/struma.html   (303 words)

  
 Struma
Struma kan du få trots att både sköldkörteln och ämnesomsättningen fungerar som de ska.
Struma kan också bero på att sköldkörteln tillverkar för mycket hormon (hypertyreos) eller för litet (hypotyreos).
Vid struma syns den som en slät eller knölig bulle.
www.vardguiden.se /Article.asp?ArticleID=3313   (661 words)

  
 ROM-SIG - The Struma Tragedy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Struma stayed in the Istanbul harbor 71 days, during which time the Turkish government conducted intense negotiations with the concerned states to find a viable solution to the Struma affair.
Josiah G. Wedgwood in the House of Commons, and Lord Davis in the House of Lords, accused the Palestine authorities and the British policy with respect to immigration to Palestine, and urged the British government to repeal the prohibition imposed on Jewish immigration to the Holy Land.
The Struma was not the end of the expeditions from Romania to the Holy Land via Istanbul.
www.jewishgen.org /romsig/New/Strumah.html   (3880 words)

  
 THHP Questions: Turkey
The Mefkure, unlike the Struma, was flying the Turkish colors, but was sunk by an unidentified sub.
The death toll was 305, with eleven survivors.
It seems rather clear that the Struma was sunk by the Soviets, who had no great love for the Turks or for Romania, the latter of which it was at war against.
www.holocaust-history.org /questions/turkey.shtml   (657 words)

  
 Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
Immunohistochemical stains for thyroglobulin is important to use because solid and microfollicular areas of the struma ovarii must be differentiated from carcinoid and granulosa cell tumors (Figure 2).
Struma ovarii has some characteristic magnetic resonance appearance of a multilobulated complex mass with thickened septa, multiple cysts of variable signal intensities, and enhancing solid components.
Malignant struma ovarii: a case report and analysis of cases reported in the literature with focus on survival and I131 therapy.
www.bioline.org.br /request?ms04037   (1309 words)

  
 Struma Ovarii (teratoma) with torsion : Goubaa M.
Struma ovarii is an uncommon type of teratomas, difficult to identify without histopathological examination.
Struma ovarii could be hormonally active and can manifest clinical symptoms of thyroid hyperactivity or thyrotoxicosis.
Struma ovarii may be associated with ascites and pleural effusion, known as "pseudo - Meigs syndrome".
www.sonoworld.com /Cases/Cases.aspx?Type=K&CaseId=449&CategoryId=14   (515 words)

  
 Struma / Kropf
Durch den Druck bei größeren Struma: Druck- und Kloßgefühl, Schluckbeschwerden, Luftnot bei Belastung, Luftnot bei bestimmten Kopfhaltungen, pfeifendes Atemgeräusch, allgemeine Atemnot, Herzbeschwerden, Heiserkeit, kalte und heiße Knoten.
Einem Struma kann eine benigne (gutartige) oder eine maligne (bösarige) Erkrankung zugrunde liegen.
Ein "Kropfherz" bildet sich erst bei großem Struma.
www.medizinfo.com /endokrinologie/schilddruese/struma.htm   (1111 words)

  
 Struma - definition - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of Zionism/Israel/
The Struma set out from Constanza on December 11, its passengers crammed into a 160 foot long ship meant for 100 passengers, in bunks stacked 8 to 10 high.
Apparently this act was the fruit of cooperation between the Soviet Union and their new found allies, the British.
By the following morning, some 20 hours after the Struma had sunk, there was just one man left alive, David Stoliar, clinging to a piece of wreckage.
www.zionism-israel.com /dic/Struma.htm   (911 words)

  
 Struma / Kropf
Durch den Druck bei größeren Struma: Druck- und Kloßgefühl, Schluckbeschwerden, Luftnot bei Belastung, Luftnot bei bestimmten Kopfhaltungen, pfeifendes Atemgeräusch, allgemeine Atemnot, Herzbeschwerden, Heiserkeit, kalte und heiße Knoten.
Einem Struma kann eine benigne (gutartige) oder eine maligne (bösarige) Erkrankung zugrunde liegen.
Ein "Kropfherz" bildet sich erst bei großem Struma.
www.medizinfo.de /endokrinologie/schilddruese/struma.htm   (1111 words)

  
 Struma behandles effektivt på Privathospitalet Mølholm
Struma er forstørrelse af skjoldbruskkirtlen, som producerer stofskiftehormon og som sidder foran på halsen.
Man kan have struma ved både for lavt, for højt og ved normalt stofskifte.
En væsentlig årsag til struma var for en del år siden, at de fleste af os manglede jod.
www.molholm.dk /media/struma.htm   (331 words)

  
 Anatolia.com
In that haste STRUMA sailed from Constanza on December 12,1941.
An unexplained explosion had torn apart STRUMA while she was about 4-5 miles from the Cape Igne Ada.
Josiah G. Wedgwood in the House of Commons, and Lord Davis in the House of Lords accused the Palestine authorities and the British policy with respect to immigration to Palestine, and urged the British government to repeal the prohibition imposed-, on the Jews to immigrate to the Holy Land.
www.anatolia.com /anatolia/History/struma/struma_tragedy.asp   (3145 words)

  
 Tresorie - PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN THYROID PATIENTS [Problems Encountered in Thyroid Patients -3] The Homoeopathic ...
The Reidels Struma is known also as the Woody type of thyroiditis or the Ligneous type of goiter.
The clinical symptoms and signs of Reidels struma depend upon the presence of the goiter, the alterations of thyroid function, and the disturbance due to pressure.
In Reidels struma, the structures adjacent to the gland become adherent to the gland but are never fixed to the skin.
www.homeoint.org /hompath/articles/1321.html   (2677 words)

  
 Struma /goitre/
Struma /goitre/ - diffused or nodal increase of thyroid gland.
Big size of struma could provoke compression of trachea and esophagus.
Treatment of diffused struma in childhood is by iodine preparations.
www.art.bg /temp/vita.bg/zab_en.php?zab=105&d=31   (94 words)

  
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One is the co-ordinates of the boat that they thought was the Struma and the other is the co-ordinates of the actual Struma.
In fact, at the time the Struma was docked in Istanbul there were still hundreds of visas to be given out under the White Paper quarter.
The intention, at least in part, was to document the miracle of a grandson searching for his grand parents' grave and against all odds reminding the world of a time when there was no room on its surface for 769 Jewish refugees.
www.channel4.com /community/showcards/S/Search_for_Struma.html   (1414 words)

  
 The Struma
With his new film The Struma writer/director Simcha Jacobovici tells the story of 779 Jewish refugees who fled Romania in 1941, aboard a dilapidated vessel call the Struma.
For 71 days the Struma's fate was deliberated at the highest levels.
Then, as desperate cries echoed from its hull, the Struma was towed out to sea and left to drift aimlessly.
members.cox.net /pjff2004/The%20Struma.htm   (176 words)

  
 *** Visit to Bulgaria : STRUMA RIVER, Bulgaria *** - Travel guide and Search engine
The Struma River is the greatest river in the Western part of Bulgaria.
In the river valley of the Struma River there are 56 artificial lakes with a total volume of 141 mln cub.m.
The sections from the town of Pernik to the town of Radomir and from the flow of the Djerman River at the village of Draganovo are highly polluted.
www.visittobulgaria.com /visit/Dir.asp?d=0-4-Nature-Bulgarian_Rivers-Struma_River   (359 words)

  
 struma boat exodus ship britain israel palestine illegal immigration refugees
During the Struma's 35th day in Istanbul, the Wannsee Conference was convened in suburban Berlin to formally authorize "the final solution." Hitler hadn't overlooked this latest demonstration of utter callousness towards hapless Jews.
Any sea journey for this vessel cannot but end in disaster." Nevertheless, on February 24, the condemned Struma was tugged out to the Black Sea and left paralyzed, without provisions or a drop of fuel, to drift precariously.
The assumption is that the Struma's coup de grace was delivered by a Soviet sub seeking Axis craft.
www.betar.co.uk /articles/betar1078315049.php   (1393 words)

  
 Renewed Interest in the Sinking of the Struma
On the other hand one should read this piece of information carefully, taking into account that Vaneev’s work was published in 1978 during the Cold War years and he might have had the intent of providing an amount of misleading information.
It is beyond doubt that every name among the 796 passengers that perished during the Struma tragedy harbors a different personal story that is noteworthy and should be reconstructed in as much as possible.
I strongly believe that accounting for the human side of the Struma passengers themselves as well as their personal and family background is conducive to a deeper understanding of the social framework of the Jewish population of Romania during the inter-war time-span and the beginning of the Holocaust.
www.isro-press.net /Struma.Rubinstein/Shimon/RenewedInterest.htm   (662 words)

  
 Riedel Struma
Riedel's struma is often associated with fibrotic processes in other parts of the body.
Riedel's struma is one among the locations of an invasive fibroinflammatory and sometimes multifocal process, of unknown etiology.
Extracervical fibrosclerosis causing obstruction of a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt in a patient with hydrocephalus and invasive fibrous thyroiditis (Riedel's struma).
www.madeasy.de /6/riedel.htm   (2244 words)

  
 *** Visit to Bulgaria : STRUMA RIVER, Bulgaria *** - Travel guide and Search engine
The Struma River is the greatest river in the Western part of Bulgaria.
In the river valley of the Struma River there are 56 artificial lakes with a total volume of 141 mln cub.m.
The sections from the town of Pernik to the town of Radomir and from the flow of the Djerman River at the village of Draganovo are highly polluted.
get.info.bg /visit/Dir.asp?d=0-4-Nature-Bulgarian_Rivers-Struma_River   (359 words)

  
 STRUMA OVARII MALIGNO: ASPECTOS CLINICOS E PATOLÓGICOS
Struma ovarii is an ovarian teratoma formed predominantly by thyroid tissue.
Most struma ovarii are not clinically suspected and the diagnosis is made by histopathological analysis performed after the excision of the mass, which normally is discovered in routine examinations.
Malignant Struma ovarii: an autopsy report of a clinically unsuspected tumor.
www.siicsalud.com /dato/dat039/04727014.htm   (615 words)

  
 Amazon.com: struma   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A Translation and Discussion of "De struma, vulgo der Kropf" By Paul Cranefield and Walter Federn.
Prehistoric Macedonia;: An archaeological reconnaissance of Greek Macedonia (west of the Struma) in the neolithic, bronze, and early iron ages, by W. A Heurtley (Unknown Binding - 1939)
Malaria and struma: Their relation to the etiology of skin diseases by Lunsford P Yandell (Unknown Binding - 1878)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=struma&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (556 words)

  
 BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Fleeing the Holocaust, Only to Find It Waiting at Sea - New York Times
Though largely forgotten today, the Struma was the worst civilian maritime disaster of the war.
The Struma, which had been a Danube cattle barge, was primarily carrying wealthy Jews who could afford the exorbitant ticket prices, along with young men from Betar, the right-wing Zionist youth group that helped organize illegal immigration.
Turkey, a tenuously neutral country fearful of angering the Germans or the British, interned the Struma in the winter of 1941-42 while the British debated its fate.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E6DE1131F932A15750C0A9659C8B63   (666 words)

  
 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - Sinking of the Struma, yet another tragedy at sea during WW2
It took them three days to limp to Istambul where their pitiful engine gave in, the Turkish authorities would not allow the engine to be repaired, and the vessel remained in this port for 70 days.
Over the site believed to be the wreck of Struma in the Black Sea, a wreath was cast upon the waters, and the Israeli flag hoisted in their ship as part of the remembrance ceremony.
That evening, a reception was hosted by the Rami M Koc Museum, and the Israeli Ambassador made the main speech.
ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/SinkingoftheStruma.html   (525 words)

  
 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - Sinking of the Struma, yet another tragedy at sea during WW2
It took them three days to limp to Istambul where their pitiful engine gave in, the Turkish authorities would not allow the engine to be repaired, and the vessel remained in this port for 70 days.
Over the site believed to be the wreck of Struma in the Black Sea, a wreath was cast upon the waters, and the Israeli flag hoisted in their ship as part of the remembrance ceremony.
That evening, a reception was hosted by the Rami M Koc Museum, and the Israeli Ambassador made the main speech.
www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/SinkingoftheStruma.html   (525 words)

  
 Public Programs | Spring 2002 film series | The Struma
It was pulled into Istanbul harbor where it sat for two months, stymied by the suspicions of the warring and neutral powers.
With the passengers haggard from the terrible conditions on board, Turkish police took control of the Struma and towed it back into the Black Sea, where it floated without an engine.
A discussion with the filmmaker, with the sole survivor of the Struma, and a Museum expert follows the screening.
www.ushmm.org /museum/publicprograms/programs/films02/struma.htm   (151 words)

  
 BAGELS & DOCS: A Jewish Doc Series - THE STRUMA
The Struma had been towed out of Istanbul harbor into the Black Sea by Turkish authorities and left engineless and stranded when it was sunk by a Soviet torpedo on the morning of February 24, 1942.
That survivor and other people whose lives were touched by the tragedy speak their piece in this excellent doc, but even more compelling is how the Turkish government reacts to Buxton's expedition.
Simcha Jacobovici's film proves that the sinking of the Struma is not some distant event, but a crime with contemporary ramifications." -Jason Anderson, Eye, Canada
www.laemmle.com /series/jewdocs/struma.html   (152 words)

  
 Holocaust Struma victims Landmann Rappaport Simon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But obstructionist diplomatic policies of Britain and Turkey resulted in nearly all aboard the Struma perishing when it was sunk in the Black Sea by a torpedo from a Soviet submarine on Feb. 24, 1942.
The Struma needed repairs, and those aboard the ship were not allowed to leave.
Daisy Landmann later recalled that after the rise of Hitler in Germany, her uncle Villy and his wife, Lisa, had traveled in 1936 to Egypt and Palestine to inquire about aliyah to the Holy Land and deposited £15,000 in an account in the Bank of Palestine.
mefischer1.home.comcast.net /HolocaustRomania.htm   (810 words)

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