title: Symptomatic thyroiditis and schizophrenia in a six-year-old girl.
abstract: A case of simultaneous symptomatic thyroiditis and schizophrenia in a prepubertal child is reported. The coexistence of these disorders has implications for potential diagnostic confusion and raises speculation of a shared immunologic and/or genetic etiology.
mesh_terms: D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012561:Schizophrenia, Childhood / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D013967:Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology