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OPERATIVE RECOVERY

J. M. MORA, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1930;40(3):500-502.

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Acute suppurative thyroiditis in children appears to be extremely uncommon. Accurate statistics as to its frequency are lacking. In the better known monographs on the thyroid gland and in the various treatises on surgery and pediatrics, it is dismissed with a brief statement as to its extreme rarity and grave prognosis. For example, Means and Richardson¹ stated that "in young children acute thyroiditis is ordinarily fatal," while in another paragraph they said that "suppurative thyroiditis may lead to serious complications and even death through mediastinitis, perforation of trachea or esophagus, or from associated edema and pressure."

The literature pertaining to the condition is relatively barren. Demme² was reported to have seen congenital strumitis in a new-born infant. Burhans,³ in a recent compilation of the reports of sixty-seven cases of acute thyroiditis from the recent literature, found two patients between the ages of 1 and 10 years, one . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Instructor in Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine CHICAGO

From the Surgical Service of Dr. H. M. Richter.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 1, 1930.

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