1. The presence of fever and thyroid pain and tenderness, biochemical hyperthyroidism, and high ESR together make the diagnosis of subacute thyroiditis most likely.1,2 Subacute thyroiditis is also known as de Quervain’s thyroiditis and granulomatous thyroiditis. It is believed to be caused by viral infection. In this condition, despite the marked release of thyroid hormones from the damaged thy...

BACKGROUND Pyrexia of unknown origin is a difficult and challenging problem for the physician. Endocrine disorders, such as subacute thyroiditis, rarely present with pyrexia of unknown origin. Subacute thyroiditis can have a broad spectrum of clinical presentations including fever and biochemical thyrotoxicosis without overt signs or symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION A previously healthy 42-year-ol...

The Authors report one case of suppurative thyroiditis in a 21-months-old girl and debate the principal aspects.

www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 1717 ation of the thyroid subsequent to Graves’ disease and surgical removal of the thyroid gland. Long-term thyroid dysfunction after subacute granulomatous thyroiditis (de Quervain’s thyroiditis) or subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis (silent or painless thyroiditis) is fairly rare. Full thyroid function is regained in 90 percent of patients with these ...

UNLABELLED This study aimed to determine the reference range of 24-h radioiodine uptake in euthyroid Jordanians, as well as the reference ranges for patients with diffuse and nodular hyperthyroidism. In addition, radioiodine uptake ranges were determined for those patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis and early-phase subacute thyroiditis. METHODS The medical records of 285 Jordanian patients ...

Subacute thyroiditis is an immune reaction of the thyroid gland that often follows upper respiratory tract infection. It uncommon but usually a self-limiting inflammatory condition. The clinical presentation varies from person to person, includes neck pain or discomfort and painful diffuse goiter. There at times transient episode hyperthyroidism followed by euthyroidism sometimes hypothyroidism...

Our patient developed Riedel's thyroiditis soon after having an exacerbation of multiple sclerosis (MS). MS has been associated with other autoimmune diseases, including thyroiditis, and both Hashimoto's thyroiditis and subacute thyroiditis have been described in connection with MS. Yet, we are not aware of any other patient reported to have concomitant MS and Riedel's thyroiditis. The associat...

Even though it is a rare event, most associations of thyroid carcinoma with subacute thyroiditis described in the literature are related to its granulomatous form (Quervain's thyroiditis). We present a patient with subacute lymphocytic thyroiditis (painless thyroiditis) and papillary thyroid cancer that was first suspected in an initial ultrasound evaluation. A 30-year old female patient who wa...