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Monday, November 22, 2021

Acute suppurative thyroiditis: An unusual complication

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Dipratim Das, Partha Chakraborty, Madhurima Ganguly, Pankaj Kumar Halder

Thyroid Research and Practice 2021 18(1):37-39

Acute thyroiditis is rare and usually subsides with medical therapy. An abscess arising due to it is even rarer. Sometimes, surgical drainage is required to control ongoing infection and sepsis. We report a case of a 4-year-old girl who had acute suppurative thyroiditis. The swelling was not resolving after 9 days of administering intravenous antibiotics and eventually compressing the esophagus and trachea which was relieved leading to a speedy recovery on emergency surgical drainage.
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