J Korean Med Sci.  1988 Mar;3(1):27-29. 10.3346/jkms.1988.3.1.27.

Histopathologic study of the so called 'palpation thyroiditis'

• Hwang TS
• Park SH

• KMID: 1421281
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.1988.3.1.27

Abstract

We have reviewed 1066 thyroid lesions and compared the relative incidence of the so called 'palpation thyroiditis' between autoimmune thyroiditis and normal thyroid parenchyme surrounding the nodular thyroid lesion and also discussed the pathogenesis of palpation thyroiditis. The typical histopathologic features of 'palpation thyroiditis' were seen in 275 cases among 467 adenomatous goiters and in none of the autoimmune thyroiditis. We here in this paper suggest that the so called 'palpation thyroiditis' is not merely a secondary phenomenon to mechanical follicular damage by vigorous palpation, but this lesion more likely develops in conditions where certain types of physiologic alteration has occurred in follicular basement membrane, just like a pathogenesis of subacute granulomatous thyroiditis.

Keyword

Palpation thyroiditis; granulomatous thyroiditis; autoimmune thyroiditis; colloid giant cells

MeSH Terms

Adenocarcinoma/complications/pathology
Adenoma/complications/pathology
Carcinoma, Papillary/complications/pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Goiter, Nodular/complications/pathology
Humans
*Iatrogenic Disease
Palpation/*adverse effects
Thyroid Gland/*injuries/pathology
Thyroid Neoplasms/complications/*pathology
Thyroiditis/diagnosis/etiology/*pathology
Thyroiditis, Autoimmune/*pathology