Re: Strange info from a cat list

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Roxanna

> >>Removing the entire thyroid can result in hypothyroidism but,

and this is the big but with surgery, cats often have thyroid tissue

elsewhere in their bodies. Sometimes removing the area with the

tumor only helps the hyperthyroidism, as the tissue elsewhere in the

body may also have the problem and produces too much hormone.

Sometimes a tumor grows on the remaining lobe and hyperthyroidism

returns<<

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> Has anyone ever heard of this " thyroid tissue " in other parts of

the body? Animal or human?

> *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

> Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/

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