Thyroid Gland Morphometric And Histological Analysis

Authors: Dr. Bheemshetty S Patil, Dr. Pallavi S. Kanthe,
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Thyroid meaning – thyreos – an oblong shield; eidos – form in 1656, the anatomist Thomas Wharton named the gland ‘Thyroid’ because of its shape resembling like a shield. In 1000 BC ancient sage and father of surgery ‘Sushruta’ dissected the body found the Thyroid gland, then he coated it as GALA GRANTHI. He is the first ancient surgeon who operated & did the thyroidectomy by preserving all vessels and nerves. And he named the goiter as GANDAMALA. Since 1600 BC the Chinese were using burnt sponge and seaweed for the treatment of goiter (enlarged thyroid gland).

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Dr. Bheemshetty S Patil

Dr Bheemshetty S. Patil presently working as assistant professor in Department of Anatomy Shri B M Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre BLDE (Deemed to be University) Vijayapura. Coordinator for Allied Health Sciences courses of BLDE (DU). He has completed his PhD in Medical Anatomy from BLDE University in 2016 under the guidance of Dr S. D. Desai and Prof Kusal K. Das. Sir is having 12 years of Teaching experience and more than 9 years of research, his research area of interest Cardiovascular and Cerebral Vascular histopathology and has developed a cerebrovascular stroke model, in animals. Innovation of a new technique for evaluation of arterial wall thickness in vascular histopathology by using Digimizer Image analyser. This is probably the first document published by using innovative technique to measure the arterial Normalized Wall Index for understanding changes in vascular histopathology. Currently working on Telomere length and Telomerase activity in aging process He has presented several International, National and State level presentations and published more than 35 peer reviewed papers in impact journals. His h-index is 6, i10-index-2 and citations 118