Working as a pathologist, you are told that a corpse is from a person who lived and died in an area where food is generally severely deficient in iodine. You would make sure to look near the neck of this person for evidence of
a. hepatitis.
b. goiter.
c. acromegaly.
d. diabetes.
e. osteoporosis.
Answer: b. goiter.
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