title: [Acute suppurative thyroiditis in 7 year-old girl with piriform sinus fistula].
abstract: A 7 year-old girl was admitted to our hospital with high grade fever and redness, swelling and tenderness in left neck. CT scan revealed cyst formation (4.5x3 cm) in left lobe of thyroid with swelling of surrounding lymphonodes. We diagnosed her as acute suppurative thyroiditis and treated her with intravenous antibiotics infusion and incisional drainage. After the treatment, the clinical course was uneventful. Pharyngograph revealed left piriform sinus fistula.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. VFF13540@nifty-ne.jp
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uchikoba
authors.forename: Cai Ling
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Zhi
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawahigashi
authors.forename: Miho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fukunaga
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D016124:Eikenella corrodens; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000150:complications*; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections; D006801:Humans; D010254:Paranasal Sinus Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D013969:Thyroiditis, Suppurative / Q000209:etiology*