A Case of Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis

Acute suppurative thyroiditis (AST) is a rare inflammatory disease of the thyroid gland. We reported AST in a 38-year-old female. She complained of painful swelling of the right anterior neck region. The pain developed after swallowing of a fish bone. CT showed a deep neck infection and we performed surgery. We could not detect a piriform sinus fistula, but we speculated that the neck infection was caused by swallowing the fish bone.

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