Unusual clinical accompaniment of inflammatory thyroiditis preceding hypothyroidism in radiotherapy of head-and-neck cancer

Unusual clinical accompaniment of inflammatory thyroiditis preceding hypothyroidism in radiotherapy of head-and-neck cancer

The authors report an unusual clinical phenomenon of head-and-neck radiotherapy-induced thyroiditis presenting with clinical features of hyperthyroidism on immediate clinical follow-up with raised thyroid hormone levels. Conventional technetium thyroid scan showed a discordantly absent thyroid gland...

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Main Authors: Vijaya Aditya Yadaraju, Aditya Narayan, Shilpa Kandipalli, Praveen Adusumalli, Sweta Sinha, Prabhakar Rao Vatturi Venkata Satya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Radiation and Cancer Research
Subjects:
external beam radiotherapy
image-guided radiation therapy
technetium thyroid scan
thyroiditis
Online Access:http://www.journalrcr.org/article.asp?issn=2588-9273;year=2021;volume=12;issue=2;spage=82;epage=84;aulast=Yadaraju

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