Acute increase in goiter size during a normal pregnancy: an exceptional case report.
This case report illustrates an exceptional clinical situation in which a pregnant woman abruptly presented, at 5 months' gestation, with major swelling of the thyroid gland that led to respiratory symptoms and emergency hospitalization. The medical condition was shown to be caused by acute intrathyroidal hemorrhage within a preexisting-albeit until then unnoticed-multinodular goiter. The cause of the intrathyroidal hemorrhage could not be firmly delineated, although it remains possible that an unusual extraneous cause constituted a "trauma" that triggered this rare medical condition.
Thyroid Investigation Clinic, Hospital Saint Pierre, Brussels, Belgium. dglinoer@ulb.ac.be
Daniel
D
Glinoer
Remy
R
Demeester
Marc
M
Lemone
Denis
D
Larsimont
Guy
G
Andry
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006044:Goiter, Nodular / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000473:pathology*; D013965:Thyroidectomy