地方性甲状腺肿(以下简称地甲病)。在纪元前三世纪中国经典文献早有瘿病记载,并且取得海藻治瘿的临床经验。在西方医学史中也是一个古老的常见病。1958年Kelley与Snedden在联合国公共卫生组织召开的第二次国际地甲病学术会议上的报告中提出,不仅是欧洲的阿尔卑斯山区、亚洲的喜马拉雅山区、拉丁美洲的安第斯山区、美洲的大湖区、非洲的刚果、大洋洲的新西兰以及中国等世界著名的几个地甲病流行区,而且世界各国都有或多或 Endemic goiter (hereinafter referred to as A disease). In the third century before the Chinese classic literature chronic disease records, and obtained the clinical experience of seaweed treatment. In the history of Western medicine is also an ancient and common disease. In 1958, Kelley and Snedden presented at the Second International Conference on Osteoporosis Symposium organized by the United Nations Public Health Organization that not only the European Alps, the Himalayas in Asia, the Andes in Latin America, the Great Lakes in the Americas, Africa, the Congo, Oceania, New Zealand and China and several other world-famous endemic areas of endemic to A, and the world has more or more