1. [The clinical case of IgG4-related thyroid disease in a 6-year-old child].
- Author
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Kolodkina AA, Zubkova NA, Urusova LS, Bondarenko SP, Brovin DN, Anikiev AV, and Bezlepkina OB
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- Humans, Child, Male, Thyroid Gland pathology, Thyroid Gland immunology, Thyroiditis, Autoimmune immunology, Thyroiditis, Autoimmune diagnosis, Thyroiditis, Autoimmune pathology, Thyroiditis, Autoimmune complications, Thyroiditis, Autoimmune blood, Immunoglobulin G blood, Immunoglobulin G immunology, Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease pathology, Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease diagnosis, Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease drug therapy
- Abstract
IgG4-related disease is a rare chronic pathology manifested by lymphoplasmacytic infiltration of one or more organs, the formation of storiform fibrosis, tissue edema, and an increase of IgG4 in the blood. This disease was singled out as an independent nosological unit only in 2001. The incidence is less than 1 in 100,000 people per year. Almost any organ can be affected in IgG4-related disease. The association of Riedel's thyroiditis with IgG4 was established in 2010. Riedel's thyroiditis is an extremely rare inflammatory disease of the thyroid gland, which diagnosis is complicated by an atypical course and the absence of characteristic symptoms. Less than 300 clinical cases of the disease have been described in the world, only two from them were in children. This article presents a clinical case of a 6-year-old boy with Riedel's thyroiditis.
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- 2023
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