Thyroidectomy for Painful Thyroiditis Resistant to Steroid Treatment: Three New Cases with Review of the Literature

Table 2

Seventeen patients with PHT reported in the literature, who underwent thyroidectomy for thyroid pain resistant to medical treatment: treatment schedules before thyroidectomy.

Study	Number of cases	Treatment in each case (daily doses when specified) (see footnotes for abbreviations)
Zimmerman et al. 1986 [3]	2	NSAID + CS, NSAID + CS
Gourgiotis et al. 2002 [4]	2	P (70 mg), treatment not specified
Kon and DeGroot 2003 [5]	7	P (30 mg), P (40 mg), P (30 mg), P (30 mg), NSAID, NSAID, NSAID + P
Ohye et al. 2005 [6]	4	CS (15 mg), CS (10 mg), CS (15 mg), CS (20 mg)
Onoda et al. 2009 [7]	2	P (30 mg), PL (30 mg)

CS: corticosteroids, not specified.
ITCS: repeated intrathyroidal corticosteroid administration.
NSAID: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and/or aspirin.
P: prednisone.
PL: prednisolone.