Every so often, a peculiar observation is reported. In this case, the original injury followed so many years later by a goitre, is probably, if not rare, at least unusual. And for the effects reported to have occurred might be unusual even within that.
A classic situation which is likely to see this not being listed as a possible result of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. After all, there will be a huge majority who do NOT get this.
Necrobiosis lipoidica arising on an old burn scar in a patient with Hashimoto's thyroiditis
A 58-year-old female visited our department, complaining of asymptomatic skin lesions on the lower legs, which had appeared two years previously. She did not have diabetes; however, she had been diagnosed as having a goiter at almost the same time as when the skin lesions began and were under follow-up. Physical examination showed several well-circumscribed waxy brownish infiltrated plaques with elevated borders on the bilateral shins (Fig. 1A and 1B). Initial lesion arose on a burn scar, which had originally been caused by a Japanese electric foot warmer, that is used in the bed in winter. Thereafter, similar lesions were increased in number in the surrounding areas and spread to another lower leg.
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Number 16 (c. 1973 – 2016), also known as #16, was a wild female trapdoor spider (Gaius villosus, family Idiopidae) that lived in North Bungulla Reserve near Tammin, Western Australia. She died in 2016, at an estimated age of 43 years, and is the longest-lived spider recorded to date. Number 16 did not die of old age, but was most likely killed by a parasitic wasp sting.
So 58 is probably a bit too old.
Arthropods (hence arachnids) seem to use sesquiterpenoid juvenile hormone (JH) where vertebrates use thyroid hormone. But thyroid hormones themselves appears to have a similar effect on arthropods.
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