Endocrine Abstracts

Silent thyroiditis is characterized by the destructive thyroid inflammation and is considered to be a chronic autoimmune thyroid disease, although the etiology could not have been fully explained. On the other hand, Graves’ disease is autoimmune phenomena as well as silent thyroiditis and silent thyroiditis has been classified as part of the spectrum of Graves’ disease. Although, the thyroid stimulating antibody (TSAb) are found positive in most of Graves’ disea...