Differential Diagnosis for Thyroid Mass

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• Trauma Causes

  • Thyroid gland injury/trauma

• Infected organ, Abscesses

  • Thyroiditis, purulent acute

• Granulomatous, Inflammatory Disorders

  • Sarcoidosis

• Neoplastic Disorders

  • Toxic nodular goiter
  • Toxic thyroid adenoma/autonomous
  • Adenocarcinoma, thyroid follicular
  • Carcinoma, medullary, thyroid
  • Carcinoma, papillary, thyroid
  • Carcinoma, thyroid, anaplastic
  • Thyroid adenoma
  • Thyroid adenoma, follicular
  • Thyroid adenoma, papillary
  • Thyroid lymphoma
  • Thyroid malignancy/carcinoma
  • Carcinoma, Hurthle cell/thyroid
  • TSH secreting pituitary adenoma
  • Metastasis to Thyroid Gland

• Allergic, Collagen, Auto-Immune Disorders

  • Hashimoto's thyrotoxic variant
  • Thyroiditis, granulomatous, subacute
  • Thyroiditis, Hashimoto's
  • Thyroiditis, postpartum type
  • Thyroiditis

• Metabolic, Storage Disorders

  • Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
  • Amyloidosis, systemic

• Deficiency Disorders

  • Goiter, iodine deficiency
  • Iodine deficiency
  • Low iodine diet

• Congenital, Developmental Disorders

  • Thyroid, ectopic
  • Pendred syndrome
  • Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (MAS syn)

• Anatomic, Foreign Body, Structural Disorders

  • Thyroid cyst
  • Thyroid mass/Thyromegaly
  • Thyroid cyst/hemorrhage

• Vegetative, Autonomic, Endocrine Disorders

  • Hyperthyroidism (Graves disease)
  • Acromegaly (Gigantism)
  • Hypothyroidism, juvenile

• Reference to Organ System

  • Goiter, simple nonendemic
  • Multinodular colloid adenomatous goiter
  • Goiter, substernal

• Drugs

  • Antithyroid medication
  • Sulfonamides Administration/Toxicity
  • Amiodarone (Cordarone) Administration/Toxicity
  • Ethionamide (Trecator) Administration/Toxicity
  • Lithium (Lithane/Lithonate) Administration/Toxicity
  • Methimazole (Tapazol) Administration/Toxicity
  • Propylthiouracil (PTU) Administration/Toxicity
  • Lithium induced goiter

• Poisoning (Specific Agent)

  • Goitrogenous food/rutabaga/cabbage