ReviewMycopathologia2006
Fungal thyroiditis: an overview.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interplay Between Infectious Diseases and the Endocrine System: An Overview and Clinical Insights.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2026Review
- Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders in Endocrine Pathology.Endocrine pathology · 2023Review
- Coccidioidomycosis masquerading as thyroid nodule: a rare diagnostic challenge.Journal of surgical case reports · 2023Article
- A Case Report of Disseminated Blastomycosis With Thyroid Involvement in a Pregnant Patient.Cureus · 2020Article
- Fungal thyroiditis in a lung transplant recipient.BMJ case reports · 2018Article
- Successful Antifungal Combination Therapy and Surgical Approach for Aspergillus fumigatus Suppurative Thyroiditis Associated with Thyrotoxicosis and Review of Published Reports.Mycopathologia · 2017Review
- Aspergillus Thyroiditis after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.Case reports in hematology · 2015Article
- Suppurative thyroiditis due to aspergillosis: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2014Article
- Histopathological Changes of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands in HIV-Infected Patients.Journal of thyroid research · 2014Article
- Hyperthyroidism secondary to disseminated mucormycosis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: case report and a review of published reports.Mycopathologia · 2013Review
- A rare case of suppurative aspergillosis of the thyroid.Case reports in otolaryngology · 2013Article
- Aspergillus thyroiditis: a complication of respiratory tract infection in an immunocompromised patient.Case reports in endocrinology · 2013Article
- Rapidly growing thyroid mass in an immunocompromised young male adult.Case reports in endocrinology · 2013Article
- Aspergillus thyroiditis: a review of the literature to highlight clinical challenges.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2012Review
- Coccidioides thyroiditis in an HIV-infected patient.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2012Article
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- A Case of Thyroidal Coccidioidal Infection.Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reportsArticle
- Mucormycosis of the Thyroid Gland: A Cataclysmic Event in Renal Allograft Recipient.Indian journal of nephrologyArticle
- Acute Invasive Fungal Thyroiditis - A Catastrophic Event Post-Renal Transplant.Indian journal of nephrologyArticle
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Abstract
The authors review the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of fungal thyroiditis cases previously reported in the medical literature. Aspergillus was by far the most common cause of fungal thyroiditis. Immunocompromised patients, such as those with leukemia, lymphoma, autoimmune diseases, and organ-transplant patients on pharmacological immunosuppression were particularly at risk. Fungal thyroiditis was diagnosed at autopsy as part of disseminated infection in a substantial number of patients without clinical manifestations and laboratory evidence of thyroid dysfunction. Local signs and symptoms of infection were indistinguishable from other infectious thyroiditis and included fever, anterior cervical pain, thyroid enlargement sometimes associated with dysphagia and dysphonia, and clinical and laboratory features of transient hyperthyroidism due to the release of thyroid hormone from follicular cell damage, followed by residual hypothyroidism. Antemortem diagnosis of fungal thyroiditis was made by direct microscopy and culture of a fine-needle aspirate, or/and biopsy in most cases. Since most patients with fungal thyroiditis had disseminated fungal infection with delay in diagnosis and treatment, the overall mortality was high.
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