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Motonori Takahashi1, Takeshi Kondo1, Gentaro Yamasaki1
1Division of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
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A Japanese woman in her 30s was found dead on a mattress. She had had fever, cough, and dyspnea for about 2 weeks. Gross examination at autopsy revealed slight enlargement of the thyroid gland and histopathological examination resulted in a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis. The concentration of triiodothyronine in the cadaveric blood was extraordinarily high, whereas that of thyroid stimulating hormone was below the detection limit. Autoimmune antibodies against thyroid tissue were positive. The cause of death was assumed to be congestive heart failure caused by thyroid storm associated with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis. Systemic histopathological examination of tissues and postmortem biochemistry can enable a diagnosis in medicolegal autopsies.
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