Agata Czarnywojtek, Krzysztof Pietrończyk, Lester D R Thompson, Asterios Triantafyllou, Ewa Florek, Nadia Sawicka-Gutaj, Marek Ruchała, Maria Teresa Płazinska, Iain J Nixon, Ashok R Shaha, Mark Zafereo, Gregory William Randolph, Peter Angelos, Abir Al Ghuzlan, Abbas Agaimy, Alfio Ferlito
We present a thorough review of the literature on Riedel thyroiditis (RT) with emphasis on aetiology, diagnosis and management, using the PubMed, Sinomed, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases. Although the exact aetiology of RT remains obscure, the histopathological features are consistent with a localized form of IgG4 -related systemic disease (IgG4 -RSD). Nevertheless, IgG4-RSD as a systemic fibroinflammatory disorder per se rarely affects the thyroid in the context of multiorgan manifestations...
May 19, 2023: Virchows Archiv: An International Journal of Pathology