Subacute Thyroiditis Treated with Salicylate

Abstract

THE usual treatment of subacute thyroiditis in recent years has entailed the administration of either cortisone or ACTH.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Recently, however, Danopoulos and Mellissinos17 reported 2 cases of this disease that were dramatically relieved by sodium salicylate. We started using salicylic acid in Japan shortly before this report became available and soon recognized the marked effect of this drug on subacute thyroiditis. Since then we have treated 5 cases successfully. These are reported in this paper.Case ReportsCase 1. A 48-year-old widow admitted to the hospital and first seen on May 11, 1954, had had a sore throat radiating to . . .