Editing Hashimoto's thyroiditis (section)

=== Children ===
Many children diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease will experience the same progressive course of the disease that adults do.<ref name="De Luca-2013">{{cite journal | vauthors = De Luca F, Santucci S, Corica D, Pitrolo E, Romeo M, Aversa T | title = Hashimoto's thyroiditis in childhood: presentation modes and evolution over time | journal = Italian Journal of Pediatrics | volume = 39 | issue = 1 | pages = 8 | date = January 2013 | pmid = 23363471 | pmc = 3567976 | doi = 10.1186/1824-7288-39-8 | doi-access = free }}</ref> However, of children who develop anti-thyroid antibodies and hypothyroidism, up to 50% are later observed to have normal antibodies and thyroid hormone levels.<ref name="Ramos-Levi2023" /> One case of true [[Remission (medicine)|remission]] has been observed in a 12-year-old girl. Her thyroid was observed via [[ultrasound]] to progress from early [[inflammation]] to severe end-stage Hashimoto's thyroiditis with hypothyroidism, and then return to "almost normal with only minimal features of inflammation" and euthyroidism.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Wu G, Zou D, Cai H, Liu Y | title = Ultrasonography in the diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis | journal = Frontiers in Bioscience | volume = 21 | issue = 5 | pages = 1006–1012 | date = June 2016 | pmid = 27100487 | doi = 10.2741/4437 }}</ref>