The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped endocrine gland that is normally located in the lower front of the neck. The thyroid’s job is to make thyroid hormones, which are secreted into the blood and then carried to every tissue in the body. Thyroid hormone helps the body use energy, stay warm and keep the brain, heart, muscles, and other organs working as they should. Click on any category below for more specific information on thyroid disease.
Thyroid disease and coronavirus (COVID-19)
Statement from the British Thyroid Association
Issued 5 March 2020 (updated 25 March 2020)
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- Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
- Care of the Surgical Incision
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Thyroid Disease
- FNA Biopsy of Thyroid Nodules
- Goiter
- Graves’ Disease
- Graves’ Eye Disease
- Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Iodine Deficiency
- Low Iodine Diet
- Medullary Thyroid Cancer
- Microcarcinomas of the Thyroid Gland
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) Type 2
- NIFTP – Non-invasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-like Nuclear Features
- Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the Thyroid
- Nuclear Radiation and the Thyroid
- Older Patients & Thyroid Disease
- Papillary and Follicular Thyroid Cancer
- Post Operative Expectations
- Postpartum Thyroiditis
- Primary Thyroid Lymphoma
- Radioactive Iodine
- Surgical Management of Graves’ Disease
- Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy
- Thyroid Function Tests
- Thyroid Hormone Treatment
- Thyroid Nodules
- Thyroid Surgery
- Thyroid & Weight
- Thyroiditis
- Toxic Nodule and Toxic Multinodular Goiter
- Childhood Head & Neck Irradiation
- Congenital Hypothyroidism
- FNA Biopsy of Thyroid Nodules in Children & Adolescents
- Hyperthyroidism in Children and
Adolescents - Hypothyroidism in Children and Adolescents
- Pediatric Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (Papillary and Follicular)
- Pediatric Thyroid Function Tests
- Thyroid Hormone Treatment
in Children and Adolescents - Thyroid Nodules in Children and Adolescents
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