Journal of Thyroid Disorders & Therapy
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-7948
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2167-7948
+44 1300 500008
Gudrun Leidig-Bruckner
Practice for Endocrinology and Nuclear Medicine,
Brückenstr. 21, 69210 Heidelberg
Germany
Research Article
Diagnostic Challenge of Rapid Enlargement of the Thyroid: Autoimmuneb Thyroiditis - Thyroid Lymphoma - Malignant Thyroid Disease
Author(s): Gudrun Leidig-Bruckner, Karin Frank-Raue, Angela Lorenz, Thomas J. Musholt, Arno Schad and Friedhelm RaueGudrun Leidig-Bruckner, Karin Frank-Raue, Angela Lorenz, Thomas J. Musholt, Arno Schad and Friedhelm Raue
clinical outcome in patients with rapidly growing thyroid. Design: Case series, three patients presenting with a growing enlarged thyroid at a secondary practice for endocrinology. Methods / Outcome measures: Diagnostic findings, clinical course and comparison to the literature. Results: All patients were postmenopausal women (age: 58-74 years). The leading symptom was goiter with growing volume or mass in the neck region. Upon ultrasound, all patients demonstrated hypoechoic irregular areas suggesting autoimmune thyroiditis. In one patient, the thyroid capsule could not be distinguished suggesting infiltrative disease, while another patient had markedly enlarged cervical lymph nodules. Thyroid function was hypothyroid in two patients and euthyroid in one. The latter patient had elevated anti-thyroid antibody titres, fine needle aspiration cytology indicated lymphoma and diagnosis was.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2167-7948.1000128