Talk:Thyroid disease

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 November 2018 and 14 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Barnecar92. Peer reviewers: Musc2019.

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Workplan for WikiProject Medicine students (Anitaver, Amlunatesan) for December 2016: Primary editing goals for this article are to 1) create a more informative Introductory paragraph, 2) streamline the organization of the "Diseases" section, 3) clarify text / provide citations and address incompletely entered information in the "Diagnosis" section. -Anitaver: organization of the bullet points/links in the "Diseases" section (+ citations, additional text if necessary) for easier readability; work on completing the "Ultrasound" section within "Diagnosis"/providing references -Amlunatesan: add more comprehensive overview information to the introductory paragraph; clarify content within the "Blood Tests" section under "Diagnosis"/check citations Anitaver (talk) 03:38, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

-Re: thyroid intro, would recommend adding in what the thyroid does, and why it is important for the body. Gives context to why this is important. Or could consider adding normal physiology of the thyroid as its own section. As it stands, would be hard to understand why the diseases are concerning. Pedsintraining (talk) 04:01, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

-A few places the language in the symptoms section could be simplified to be more accessible to non-physicians. For example - you could change insomnia to "difficulty sleeping (insomnia)." Mostly that looks great though! I might consider making the "medication causes" it's own subparagraph, as I think it deserves a bit more attention. For the Ultrasound section, I would consider making the "Thyroid nodules may or may not be cancer" sentence a bit more descriptive with some context. Example might be: "Many people have a thyroid nodule at some point in their life. Although many people who experience this worry that it is cancer, there are many causes of nodules that are not cancer." I would think about adding WHY u/s is the most effective diagnostic tool (over MRI/CT) would be a great addition to this section. Many people come to their doctors wanting an MRI or something of the sort, and having the fact that this is not the appropriate tool could save someone time if they look it up on wikipedia! Finally, not sure if anyone is working on this part of the page, but I would add the term "fine" to needle aspiration, with a link to the wiki page. I think this is important to have on there as a term, as people may hear about it or read about it when they are learning about thyroid disease diagnosis. Pedsintraining (talk) 16:04, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

- An introductory sentence in the diagnosis section would be useful because your page is so long. Ex: "Diagnosis of thyroid disease depends on your symptoms and presence of a nodule. Most patient will receive a blood test. Others will need an ultrasound, biopsy or or radioiodine scanning and uptake study."Pedsintraining (talk) 16:07, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

- Great article. I would recommend direct linking the "thyroiditis" "hyperthyroidism" and "hypothyroidism" words in the intro to their respective wikipages. I think you have them linked lower down and even described, but that is the first place they appear. You may consider adding some indication in your lower hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism sections that they are condensed representations of larger articles. I have seen people use the "main" code to make this happen. Something like:

- You could also directly link T3 and T4 to their respective pages. In general, I would recommend expanding your lead to address some of the lower sections as well, such as surgery.

- You might consider adding an explanation for what nodular abnormalities are. You might cite some sources for the Biospy and Treatment sections. DHCopeland (talk) 18:03, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Links in headings
We tend not to put them thus removed Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 02:12, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Links in References
The following link in the References is broken: ''Link Prevalence and Impact of Thyroid Disease. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.thyroid.org/media-main/abouthypothyroidism/'' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itsme Mario (talk • contribs) 11:37, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Signs/symptoms section?
Unclear regarding direction of Ozzie10aaaa's edits adding a Signs/Symptoms section at beginning of article...right now it is incomplete and therefore confusing for the reader. Is the intention just to summarize the symptoms of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism in bullet point form? If so, may be more useful to do so within the respective sections (within the explanation for each of these conditions, so that symptoms are more closely paired with the diseases being listed), or perhaps to do so in a summary comparison chart after both conditions have at least been described? Thoughts? Anitaver (talk) 01:38, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * had added the section per MEDMOS Manual_of_Style/Medicine-related_articles,

...however should you find reason to remove(or alter) then please do so, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:41, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Classification: If relevant. May also be placed as a subheading of diagnosis
 * Signs and symptoms or Characteristics
 * Causes: Includes Risk factors, triggers, Genetics or genome, Virology (e.g., structure/morphology and replication).
 * Mechanism: For information about pathogenesis and pathophysiology.
 * Diagnosis: Includes characteristic biopsy findings and differential diagnosis.
 * Prevention or Screening (if the section only discusses secondary prevention it should follow the treatment section)
 * Treatment or Management: This might include any type of currently used treatment, such as diet, exercise, medication, palliative care, physical therapy, psychotherapy
 * I agree. It only covers hypthyroidism. I suggest it be deleted.

Work plan for barnecar92 for Nov/Dec 2018
My priority is editing for clarity and accessibility. There is a lot of great information here but it needs some organization and streamlining. Particularly in the introduction area I think the epidemiology can be broken out into its own section and the testing can be covered in a more cursory way with the more through description covered in the Diagnosis section. -I also want to complete the signs and symptoms section (add in cancer and structural) and reformat to reflect that of the Diseases section. -I want to add more description under the Disease sections before we start listing the disease names (e.g. Structural abnormalities of the thyroid gland may or may not have changes in hormone level to go along with them) -I want to add a Mechanism section to briefly talk about pathophysiology of hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and structural problems. These sections will not be intended to be exhaustive discussions of hyperthyroidism/hypothyroidism/cancer/structural abnormalities but they will be broad overviews with links to the more in depth wiki articles about each condition.

In each of these sections there are many different possible presentations for the many diseases that I will gloss over. I will choose to touch on the signs and symptoms that are either most common, most characteristic, or when relevant most life threatening. My aim for this editing is to make the article accessible to the average person by writing in a clear way without jargon. I will have a classmate revise my work to make sure I am writing clearly. Barnecar92 (talk) 20:39, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

overall a really good article. I like the introduction section which gave important details but not too much and it also defined common medical terms for the nontechnical audience. The symptoms and signs sections is very good in that it is a list that is easy to read and can be understood by the general public. The pathophysiology section is great in explaining the complex mechanism of the disease process without using too technical terms/medical jargons. The explanations are succinct and the hyperlinks provide additional indepth discussion of the topic. The article is not confusing to read and the sources used for reference are all reliable and available to the public. There are no overrepresented or underrepresented point of views and the the article is neutral and balanced. There are no claims that appear overly biased. There is no evidence of plagiarism. Very well organized and written article with appropriate amount of detail. One suggestion I have is to use some US images to go along with the table of benign lesion vs concerning for malignant lesions. I think overall the article is very well written for the general public.

Signs/Symptoms section
This article is a well written article that gives a good understanding of Thyroid disease. I like that the signs/ symptoms section is available so a reader is able to understand what the symptoms of hypo- and hyperthyroidism. However, may I suggest that this be combined in the disease section? JSUWM (talk) 02:45, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Missing FTC, THR genes
This article is good for primary stage knowledge in the thyroid. But in the case of thyroid cancer, it doesn't elaborate on the topic. Like this article, it has not mentioned the widely invasive follicular thyroid carcinomas (WIFTC) and minimally invasive follicular thyroid carcinomas (MIFTC). Moreover regarding the thyroid receptor, how many types of thyroid receptors gene are present that is also not stated. Shrinwanti Ghosh (talk) 21:54, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Confusing caption
For the image showing Exophthalmos the caption appears to reverse cause and effect or is perhaps confusing "major causes" with "obvious symptom"

Exophthalmos is the eye bulging that may be seen with Graves Disease, one of the major causes of hyperthyroidism

Idyllic press (talk) 14:12, 15 May 2023 (UTC)