Endocrine exophthalmos.
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Acute endocrine exophthalmos.
A case is reported of acute endocrine exophthalmos in a 60-year-old clinically euthyroid male diabetic and the rapid response to steroid therapy is described. The exophthalmometer was used to assess objectively the variations of the exophthalmos.
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UNDER the heading "endocrine exophthalmos" we may consider on the one hand thyrotoxic exophthalmos and on the other the condition which has been designated exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia, malignant exophthalmos, thyrotropic exophthalmos, and also as a hyperophthalmopathic form of Graves's disease (Means, 1945). As Wybar (1956) has emphasized, the separation of endocrine exophthalmos into the thyr...
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THE proper treatment of a given case of endocrine exophthalmos is often difficult and frequently of great consequence to the patient. On the physician's decision whether or not to depress the patient's thyroid activity may greatly depend the condition of the exophthalmos. This decision cannot be made on the degree of the protrusion alone, and the following article draws attention to a further c...
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(a) Hyperthyroid or Thyrotoxic Exophthalmos.-This accompanies Graves's disease and is, therefore, much more frequently seen in females than in males. In the majority of cases the exophthalmos is quite unobtrusive or there is merely an appearance of exophthalmos due to retraction of the upper lid. It is associated with a decreased frequency of blinking and a fixed stare. The majority of authors ...
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ORBITAL DECOMPRESSION P. R. R. CLARKE (Middlesbrough) discussed a series of 20 patients with endocrine exophthalmos treated by lateral orbital decompression. There had been 14 bilateral decompressions, and in six patients a unilateral operation only had been performed. One patient had needed reoperation. Four patients had no thyroid abnormality, and two had untreated hyperthyroidism. In 14 pati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5796.360