Variable Clinical Presentations of Riedel's Thyroiditis: Report of Two Cases

Riedel's thyroiditis is a rare inflammatory disease of the thyroid gland and has been reported in 0.05% of thyroid surgeries. Herein we report two cases of Riedel's thyroiditis with variable clinical presentations. One of these cases was a 51-year-old man who was presented with hypothyroid...

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Autores principales: Zakeri, Hamidreza, Kashi, Zahra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21837243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/709264
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description Riedel's thyroiditis is a rare inflammatory disease of the thyroid gland and has been reported in 0.05% of thyroid surgeries. Herein we report two cases of Riedel's thyroiditis with variable clinical presentations. One of these cases was a 51-year-old man who was presented with hypothyroidism and the other a 17-year-old young male with thyrotoxicosis. In these cases, age may be a determining factor in presenting symptoms and signs, disease process, and response to treatment.
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spelling pubmed-31529642011-08-11 Variable Clinical Presentations of Riedel's Thyroiditis: Report of Two Cases Zakeri, Hamidreza Kashi, Zahra Case Rep Med Case Report Riedel's thyroiditis is a rare inflammatory disease of the thyroid gland and has been reported in 0.05% of thyroid surgeries. Herein we report two cases of Riedel's thyroiditis with variable clinical presentations. One of these cases was a 51-year-old man who was presented with hypothyroidism and the other a 17-year-old young male with thyrotoxicosis. In these cases, age may be a determining factor in presenting symptoms and signs, disease process, and response to treatment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3152964/ /pubmed/21837243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/709264 Text en Copyright © 2011 H. Zakeri and Z. Kashi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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