Treatment of Acute Thyroiditis with Antithyroid Drugs

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WE have treated 3 patients with acute thyroiditis, all women between forty-two and fifty-one years of age, with antithyroid drugs, with prompt resolution of the disturbance in all. Two additional patients, aged fifty-five and forty-eight, who presented suggestive signs of acute thyroiditis and responded to treatment with thiouracil, are not included in this report because the diagnosis was not so clear-cut as in the others. One of them had a Hashimoto-struma lymphomatosa with a flare-up simulating acute thyroiditis. The other presented comparatively few distinctive symptoms of this disease but showed more evidence of an acute hyperthyroidism.Acute thyroiditis is a . . .

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