There are three main causes of thyroid lymph nodes.

Clinically, thyroid lymph nodes are a type of disease that many people pay special attention to. After suffering from this disease, most people will also pay special attention to the cause of the disease. So, what are the causes of thyroid lymph nodes?

1. Hyperplastic nodular thyroid

Excessive or insufficient iodine intake, consumption of goitrogenic substances, use of goitrogenic drugs, or thyroid hormone synthase deficiency, etc.

2. Tumorous nodules

Benign thyroid tumors, thyroid papilloma, thyroid follicular cell carcinoma, thyroid medullary carcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, lymphoma and other thyroid follicular cell and non-follicular cell malignant tumors and metastatic cancer.

3. Inflammatory nodules

Acute purulent thyroiditis, subacute purulent thyroiditis, and chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis can all present as nodules. In rare cases, thyroid nodules are caused by tuberculosis or syphilis.