Journal of Thyroid Disorders & Therapy
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Karin Frank-Raue

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• 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 Raue Gudrun 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

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