Thyroid Disease Diagnosis

Doctors piece together symptoms you're experiencing, medical history, test results, and more to determine that you have thyroid disease and just what type is affecting you.
Nurse preparing patient to do a blood analysis - stock photo
TSH Levels: What Do High and Low Levels Mean?
A woman touches her throat.
How to Do a Thyroid Neck Check
Woman donating blood
Factors That May Affect Your Thyroid Test Results
Doctor administering blood test
Reading Your Thyroid Blood Test Results
Woman receiving injection
What Is an Aldosterone Test?
Senior man having a blood test done by a nurse
What Is the Thyroid-Binding Globulin Test?
Nurse bandaging arms after patient donates blood in hospital bank
What Is a Parathyroid Hormone Blood Test?
Doctor and patient
What Is a Free T4 Index Test?
Doctor and patient
What Is a Thyroglobulin Antibody Test?
scientist in research lab
What Is a Total Triiodothyronine (T3) Test?
Thyroid palpation, woman
What Is a Free Thyroxine Test?
Female doctor and patient talking in exam room
What Is a Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody Test?
A woman and her doctor
What Is a Total Thyroxine (T4) Test?
woman getting a radioactive iodine uptake test
What Is a Radioactive Iodine Uptake Test?
woman getting a free triiodothyronine test
What Is a Triiodothyronine Test?
What Is a Calcium Blood Test?
What Is a Calcium Blood Test?
Female doctor discussing test results with patient
Why Your Thyroid Hormone Levels May Be Fluctuating
Lab technician with blood samples and medical chart
Overview of the TRH Stimulation Thyroid Test
Thyroid neck check
What Is the T3 Resin Uptake Test?
Mature Woman at doctors office. Doctor is doing an external gland exam, touching her glands with hands, using latex gloves.
Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Biopsy of the Thyroid