Fibrosis of the thyroid and lacrimal glands.

HASHIMOTO (1912) remarked on the similarity of the form of thyroiditis, described by him and now known by his name, to the lesions of Mikulicz's disease, which include a chronic inflammatory reaction in the lacrimal glands. Only recently, however, has evidence accumulated of a true association between non-infective chronic inflammatory lesions of the thyroid and lacrimal glands (Anderson, Gray, Beck, and Kinnear, 1961; Bunim, 1961). We record here a case in which an inflammatory lesion of the thyroid, considered to be Riedel's thyroiditis, was followed by fibrous replacement of the thyroid and both lacrimal glands.