Goiter history and symptoms
History and Symptoms
Differential Diagnosis
In alphabetical order. [1] [2]
Diffuse Goiter
- Acromegaly
- Acute thyroiditis
- Adenoma of the thyroid
- Amyloidosis
- Anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid
- Benign and malignant thyroid gland tumors
- Calcium and fluorides in water
- Carcinosarcoma of the thyroid
- Chemicals
- Colloid nodule of the thyroid
- Compensatory hyperplasia after hemithyroidectomy
- Cyst
- Defects in thyroid hormone synthesis
- DeQuervain's Thyroiditis
- Drugs
- Excess thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)
- Focal thyroiditis
- Follicular carcinoma of the Thyroid
- Goitrogenic vegetables (bamboo shoots, broccoli, cabbage, cassava, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, turnips)
- Grave's Disease
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Hematoma
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Impairment of the thyroid hormone synthesis/enzyme defect
- Insulin-like growth factor
- Iodine deficiency
- Lymphoma
- Maternal antithyroid drug therapy
- Maternal iodine therapy
- Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid
- Menopause
- Metastases of extrathyroidal tumors
- Mixed papillary-follicular carcinoma of the thyroid
- Multiple adenomas
- Nontoxic nodular goiter
- Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid
- Paraneoplastic production of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)
- Parasite
- Parathyroid tumoral tissue
- Pregnancy
- Puberty
- Reidel's Thyroiditis
- Resistance to thyroid hormone
- Sarcoidosis
- Sarcoma
- Selenium deficiency
- Silent thyroiditis
- Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the thyroid
- Toxic multinodular goiter
- Thymic tumoral tissue
- Thyroid gland autonomy
- Thyroid growth immunoglobulins
- Thyroiditis
Hyperthyroid
- Chloriocarcinoma of the thyroid
- Embrional cell carcinoma of the testis
- Gestational stimulation by human chorionic gonadotropin
- Grave's Disease
- Hydatiform mole
- Pituitary resistence to thyroid hormone
- Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)-secreting pituitary gland tumor
- Thyroiditis