Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is a transient inflammatory disease of the thyroid. As we hypothesized that clinical characteristics of SAT were changing recent years, we evaluated data of our patients.Patients and methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 192 patients (45 men and 147 women) with SAT who visited our hospital from 1990 to 2009. We analyzed these records dividing into two groups by decade, i.e. the first 10 years (1...