Chronic Thyroiditis

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Abstract
CHRONIC thyroiditis, as evidenced by degeneration and fibrotic changes in the thyroid gland, is not a common disease entity but is encountered fairly frequently by the clinician and surgeon experienced in thyroid disease. The recognition of this pathologic process in the thyroid gland is important from the clinical aspect because its firmness, adherence and increase in size of the gland may cause it to be mistaken for malignant neoplasm arising in the thyroid gland.Classification of this type of thyroid disease has always been more or less troublesome, and loosely used and poorly defined terminology has contributed in no small . . .

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