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CARL P. SCHLICKE, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1951;63(5):656-662.

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THYROIDITIS is a little known and infrequently recognized disease process. As recently as 1935 Cochrane and Nowak¹ wrote: "It is no exaggeration to say that thyroiditis as an entity is unknown to the average internist and surgeon." Patterson and Starkey,² after a study of 24 cases of chronic thyroiditis in 1948, were amazed at the low incidence of correct preoperative diagnosis. Riedel³ described ligneous thyroiditis in 1896, Hashimoto³ described struma lymphomatosa in 1912, and in recent years Crile⁵ has written extensively about subacute thyroiditis. It is a little difficult to understand why such unfamiliarity with the condition exists.

Among 7,045 patients with thyroid disease seen at the Cleveland Clinic between 1936 and 1947, 143 cases of thyroiditis were encountered.⁶ A similar ratio (24 in 1,595) is reported from the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn.⁷ At the Roosevelt Hospital in New York 1 in 100 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SPOKANE, WASH.

From the Surgical Service, Rockwood Clinic.

Footnotes
Read at the annual meeting of the Spokane Surgical Society, April 21, 1951.

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