OBJECTIVE To report a case of severe and recurrent painless thyroiditis requiring thyroidectomy. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 47-year-old man who presented with severe thyrotoxicosis was found to have extremely low radioactive iodine uptake, negative TSH receptor antibodies, and normal C-reactive protein; these findings suggested a diagnosis of painless thyroiditis. Due to the sev...

Lymphocytic adrenal medullitis characterized by inflammation and atrophy in the medulla of the bilateral adrenal glands was observed in an 18-month-old male laboratory beagle dog. It might be that the present lymphocytic adrenal medullitis is an autoimmune-mediated disease as the histological characteristics are consistent with an autoimmune pathogenesis. However, the actual cause remains uncle...

A 49-year-old Japanese woman was referred to our department for evaluation of a thyroid nodule. She underwent subtotal thyroidectomy with modified neck dissection for a follicular thyroid carcinoma, suspected on preoperative diagnosis. The histological diagnosis was tuberculous thyroiditis. She made an uneventful recovery and received antituberculous agents. At follow-up she remains well and is...

Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare congenital anomaly resulting from failure of one thyroid lobe development. We report a 23-year-old female presented with Hashimoto's thyroiditis in left lobe, associated with hemiagenesis of right lobe and isthmus which was previously diagnosed as Graves' hyperthyroidism, but developed further into Hashimoto's thyroiditis after being treated with antithyroid drugs...

Inflammation of the thyroid gland is referred to as thyroiditis and associated with inflammation. Recent studies found significant association between novel inflammatory metabolic markers, well C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP/lymphocyte count ratio (CLR) a marker that various conditions has not been studied in thyroiditis, yet. We aimed investigate CRP lymphocyte patients compare those healthy su...

The clinical picture of acute thyroiditis 8 may be so classical that the diagnosis is obvious. However, very often, the symptomatology may be obscure. Several investigators have sought for a laboratory test, specific for the disease, to complement the clinical observations. In 1949, Werner, Quimby, and Schmidt (1) reported that six patients with thyroiditis had exceedingly low thyroidal uptakes...

OBJECTIVE To assess levels of vitamin D and of immunoglobulin G subclasses in children and adolescents with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus with or without autoimmune thyroiditis. DESIGN Among 213 patients with type 1 diabetes, the cases with thyroid-specific autoantibodies formed Group 1 [n=19, M/F: 7/12, median age 13 years (10.1-14.7)]. Nineteen age-, gender-, and diabetes duration-matched cases ...