Suppurative thyroiditis

Acute bacterial suppurative thyroiditis is an infrequent but life‐threatening medical emergency. It needs to be considered in a patient with painful thyroid enlargement. Therapy consists of appropriate antibiotics and drainage of abscess. The disease may prove fatal if diagnosis and treatment are de...

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Autores principales: Singla, Mandeep, Gaba, Saurabh, Bhinder, Kanwar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29744096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1463
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spelling pubmed-59302112018-05-09 Suppurative thyroiditis Singla, Mandeep Gaba, Saurabh Bhinder, Kanwar Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Acute bacterial suppurative thyroiditis is an infrequent but life‐threatening medical emergency. It needs to be considered in a patient with painful thyroid enlargement. Therapy consists of appropriate antibiotics and drainage of abscess. The disease may prove fatal if diagnosis and treatment are delayed. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5930211/ /pubmed/29744096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1463 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Suppurative thyroiditis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29744096
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