Chapter 19. ACUTE AND SUBACUTE, AND RIEDEL’S THYROIDITIS

the role of diagnostic fine needle thyroid aspiration has been emphasized, firstly as a factor in the cause of acute suppurative thyroiditis with associated thyrotoxicosis in a patient with atopic dermatitis, also being causative in a case of secondary infection after aspirating a simple cyst, associated with necrosis in a patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma and an intra-thyroidal abscess in a multinodular goiter which grew E… ................
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