Felicetta J V
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85012.
Postgrad Med. 1989 Oct;86(5):269-72, 277. doi: 10.1080/00325481.1989.11704451.
Subacute thyroiditis is a common disease that often goes undetected. Indeed, both painful and painless thyroiditis are easily overlooked or misdiagnosed and perhaps mistreated unless careful attention is paid to the patient's history and physical examination. Treating the hyperthyroidism of subacute thyroiditis as if it were Graves' disease, for example, would be inappropriate, since therapy for the two entities is completely different. A form of painless thyroiditis, for reasons that remain unclear, can occur in the postpartum period and may be related to postpartum psychosis or depression.
亚急性甲状腺炎是一种常见疾病，常未被察觉。事实上，无论是疼痛性还是无痛性甲状腺炎，若不仔细关注患者病史和体格检查，都很容易被忽视、误诊甚至误治。例如，将亚急性甲状腺炎的甲亢当作格雷夫斯病来治疗是不合适的，因为这两种疾病的治疗方法完全不同。一种无痛性甲状腺炎，原因尚不清楚，可发生在产后，可能与产后精神病或抑郁症有关。
