| [new area of endemic goiter : the northeast bénoué, (north cameroon)]. | endemic goiter was thought to essentially spread in the southern part of cameroun. in fact the north-east benoué (neb) area also appears to be concerned. we studied 1242 individuals from 5 representative villages. the overall goiter frequency was 28.4%. study of emigrants showed a spreading of the endemic area towards the boundary part of tchad. however increase of morbidity was related to the duration of settlement in neb (18% after 1 year vs 34% after 5 years, p less than 0.01). samples of uri ... | 1986 | 3827198 |