Acute increase in goiter size during a normal pregnancy: an exceptional case report

Thyroid. 2003 Sep;13(9):881-4. doi: 10.1089/105072503322401096.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Cysts / complications
  • Cysts / pathology
  • Cysts / surgery
  • Female
  • Goiter, Nodular / complications
  • Goiter, Nodular / pathology*
  • Goiter, Nodular / surgery
  • Hemorrhage / complications
  • Hemorrhage / pathology*
  • Hemorrhage / surgery
  • Humans
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications / pathology*
  • Thyroidectomy