A swollen, red scar.

摘要

In April, 2006, a 55-year-old woman was referred to our department with redness, swelling, and severe pain at the front of the neck, below the cricoid cartilage. Her symptoms had started a few months previously, and had gradually worsened since In 1982, the patient had been diagnosed with a euthyroid multinodular goitre; one nodule had compressed her trachea, so she had undergone a partial thyroidectomy. She had been prescribed thytoxine ever since.. She had no other medical history of note,. The patient's previous thyroid disorder, anterior neck pain, and swelling led to a provisional diagnosis, on referral, of acute thyroiditis.