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de Quervain's subacute thyroiditis

Margaret Condon 28 July 2003

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- Patient presents with neck pain
- symptoms like fever and lethargy after URTI or viral illness
- Thyroid exquisitely tender
- In the acute phase patient may be thyrotoxic, followed by hypothyroidism in 2-4 months, eventually returning to euthyroid state in 6 months

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