Endocrine

Question 1

Which thyroiditis typically occurs in women after a viral infection of the respiratory tract?

Answer 1

de Quervain’s thyroiditis.

Question 2

Graves disease would show what result on a radionuclide thyroid test?

Answer 2

Markedly increased iodine uptake.

Question 3

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an autoimmune hypothyroidism in which there is depletion of which cells?

Answer 3

Thryocytes.

- Hashimoto’s is hyper at first.

Question 4

What is Riedel’s thyroiditis?

Answer 4

Extensive fibrosis of the thyroid gland.

- Fixed, hard mass clinically mimicking a carcinoma.