REVERSIBLE MANIFESTATION OF THYROIDITIS

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Abstract
The problem of diagnosis and treatment of the thyroid nodule is a vexing one and has been the subject of many communications. I have recently had an instructive experience with a solitary thyroid nodule which proved amenable to medical treatment. A 40-year-old housewife, the mother of five living children, was referred to me because of acute onset of swelling of the anterior part of the neck. A few days previously she had noted pain in the left side of her neck which was aggravated by dorsiflexion of the neck. A tender swelling in the left, anterior part of the neck was noted the day before examination. The only recent illness the patient had had was an upper respiratory infection accompanied by rhinorrhea and sore throat, two weeks previously, from which she obtained symptomatic relief by taking several doses of aspirin. Fever had not been noted. The only previous history at

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