Thyroid Scintigraphy in Fever of Unknown Origin

Thyroiditis is a very rare cause of fever of unknown origin (FUO). Thyroiditis presenting as only fever and weight loss is very rare. We present a case of FUO, which was later on confirmed as thyroiditis on thyroid scintigraphy.

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Autores principales: Mohanty, Rashmi Ranjan, Agrawal, Kanhaiyalal, Meher, Bikash Ranjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31579229
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_111_19
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spelling pubmed-67712062019-10-02 Thyroid Scintigraphy in Fever of Unknown Origin Mohanty, Rashmi Ranjan Agrawal, Kanhaiyalal Meher, Bikash Ranjan Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Thyroiditis is a very rare cause of fever of unknown origin (FUO). Thyroiditis presenting as only fever and weight loss is very rare. We present a case of FUO, which was later on confirmed as thyroiditis on thyroid scintigraphy. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6771206/ /pubmed/31579229 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_111_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Thyroid Scintigraphy in Fever of Unknown Origin
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title_full Thyroid Scintigraphy in Fever of Unknown Origin
title_fullStr Thyroid Scintigraphy in Fever of Unknown Origin
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title_short Thyroid Scintigraphy in Fever of Unknown Origin
title_sort thyroid scintigraphy in fever of unknown origin
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31579229
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