Relation between Therapy for Hyperthyroidism and the Course of Graves' Ophthalmopathy

Open Access

8 January 1998

journal article
clinical trial
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 338 (2) , 73-78
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199801083380201

Abstract

The chief clinical characteristics of Graves' disease are hyperthyroidism and ophthalmopathy. The relation between the two and the effect of treatment for hyperthyroidism on ophthalmopathy are unclear.

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