PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | thyroiditis |
| Phenotype | C0040149|subacute thyroiditis |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22570820 | Reported the coexistence of hashimoto thyroiditis with subacute thyroiditis in two cases.4 it was not clarified whether the coexistence was accidental or pathogenically interrelated, because only a few cases of an association between subacute thyroiditis and hashimoto thyroiditis have been reported.5 furthermore, hashimoto thyroiditis itself can be a very rare cause of painful or tender thyroid.2 we describe here a case of a hashimoto thyroiditis patient who had a chronic goiter for several months and subsequently presented with a painful, tender goiter, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr), and decreased thyroid tc-99m pertechnetate uptake typical of subacute thyroiditis. |
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