PERMANENT MYXEDEMA: AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION OF GRANULOMATOUS THYROIDITIS
- 1 November 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 21 (11) , 1384-1389
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-21-11-1384
Abstract
A patient who suffered three attacks of acute granulomatous thyroiditis eventually experienced permanent myxedema, as proved by failure of thyroidal uptake of I131 to increase after adequate stimulation with TSH. This phenomenon is distinctly unusual, in contrast to the more frequent occurrence of transient myxedema following severe attacks of acute thyroidits.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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