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Thyromegaly
Introduction
Synonyms and keywords: Enlarged thyroid, enlarged thyroid gland, enlargement of thyroid, goiter, goitre, swelling of thyroid gland,thyroid enlargement
Causes
Causes
- Trauma
- Thyroiditis
- Toxic thyroid adenoma
- Parathyroid adenocarcinoma
- Follicular adenocarcinoma
- Medullary carcinoma
- papillary carcinoma
- Carcinoma, thyroid, anaplastic
- Lymphoma/malignant, non-Hodgkins
- Thyroid adenoma, follicular
- Thyroid adenoma, papillary
- Thyroid lymphoma
- Thyroid malignancy/carcinoma
- Carcinoma, Hurthle cell/thyroid
- TSH secreting pituitary adenoma
- Metastasis to Thyroid Gland
- Hashimoto’s thyrotoxic variant
- Juvenile thyroiditis
- Silent thyroiditis
- Thyroiditis, chronic fibrous
- Thyroiditis, granulomatous, subacute
- Thyroiditis, Hashimoto’s
- Thyroiditis, postpartum type
- Metabolic, Storage Disorders
- Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
- Goiter, iodine deficiency
- Iodine deficiency
- Cretinism, goitrous sporadic
- Cretinism
- Neonatal Graves/thyrotoxicosis disease
- Thyroid cyst
- Pendred syndrome
- Thyroid hormone resistance/receptor defect (3p24.3)
- Pregnancy
- Hyperthyroidism
- Graves disease
- Hypothyroidism
- Myxedema
- Thyrotoxic crisis
- Apathetic thyroid crisis
- Acromegaly
- Gigantism
- Hypothyroidism, juvenile
- Jod-Basedow’s hyperthyroidism
- Antithyroid medication
- Iodide/Potassium iodide Administration/Toxicity
- Lithium (Lithane/Lithonate) Administration/Toxicity
- Methimazole (Tapazol) Administration/Toxicity
- Propylthiouracil (PTU) Administration/Toxicity
- Goitrogenous food/rutabaga/cabbage
References
References
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]