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Painful thyroid gland: an atypical presentation of Graves' disease
Author(s) -
Stanley Julia M.,
Najjar Samir S.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
clinical endocrinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1365-2265
pISSN - 0300-0664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1992.tb02360.x
Subject(s) - medicine , thyroid , subacute thyroiditis , thyroiditis , endocrinology , erythema , graves' disease , wolff–chaikoff effect , thyroid disease , goiter , dermatology , euthyroid
An adolescent with Graves' disease presented with acute painful swelling of the thyroid gland and overlying erythema simulating acute suppurative or subacute thyroiditis. She had an elevated radioactive iodine uptake, thyroid stimulating antibodies, thyrotrophin binding inhibiting immunoglobulins, and a normal sedimentation rate and leucocyte count. The course of the thyrotoxicosis and painful thyroid was protracted, and the pain and tenderness of the thyroid recurred on two subsequent relapses.