What is Thyroiditis?
Thyroiditis is an inflammatory condition of the thyroid. There are a number of causes of this inflammation. The major types of thyroiditis are listed below:
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis
- Suppurative thyroiditis
- Subacute (nonsuppurative or 'de Quervain's') thyroiditis
- Reidel's Thyroiditis
- Postpartum thyroiditis
- Silent thyroiditis
- Radiation thyroiditis
- Palpation thyroiditis.(see silent thyroiditis)
Thyroid
- What is the thyroid?
- What can go wrong with the thyroid
- What is a goitre
- Thyroid nodules
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Graves' disease
- Thyroid eye disease (TED)
- Toxic multinodular goitre
- Plummer's disease
- Congenital and maternal thyrotoxicosis
- Hypothyroidism (myxoedema)
- Thyroid cancer
- Thyroiditis
- Thyroid surgery
- Thyroid and the voice