Paediatria Croatica, Vol. 55 No. 3, 2011.
Case report
ACUTE SUPPURATIVE THYROIDITIS IN CHILDREN
Veselin Škrabić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9434-5306
; KBC Split
Željka Vlastelica
Vlado Bedeković
Zaviša Čolović
Robert Tafra
Abstract
Acute suppurative thyroiditis is a rare but potentially life threatening disease in children and adolescents, usually occurring as a complication of so-called pyriform sinus fistula. The left thyroid lobe is affected in 90% of cases. Common treatment is a combination of surgical and antibiotic therapy, although good results of less invasive therapeutic approaches have been reported recently from non-randomized studies. We describe three female pediatric patients with acute purulent thyroiditis treated at our Department during a 20-year period, without confirmed sinus pyriform fistula. Two patients had a process in the right lobe of the thyroid, and all of them were treated with antibiotics and surgical therapy.
Keywords
Descriptors: THYROIDITIS, SUPPURATIVE; ABSCESS; THERAPEUTICS; CHILD; ADOLESCENT
Hrčak ID:
74377
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Publication date:
6.9.2011.
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