The major cause of hypothyroidism, thyroiditis affects about 12 million people in the United States.
Several nonspecific types of thyroiditis, both acute and chronic, may be caused by bacterial and viral organisms. There are, however, two specific, noninfectious types of thyroiditis: (1) Hashimoto’s disease (q.v.), or struma lymphomatosa, and (2) granulomatous thyroiditis (q.v.), sometimes referred to as giant cell thyroiditis, pseudotuberculous thyroiditis, or de Quervain’s thyroiditis. A very rare chronic thyroid inflammation is Riedel thyroiditis (q.v.), or struma fibrosa.
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