Thyrotoxic muscle disease
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Thyrotoxic muscle disease.
Evidence suggests that most hyperthyroid patients have a proximal myopathy. The more severe this is the more frequently are distal muscles, and ultimately, bulbar muscles involved. Probably acute thyrotoxic myopathy or encephalopathy supervenes on a previous chronic background or occurs concurrently with skeletal muscle involvement. Using careful electromyographic techniques evidence of myopath...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.44.511.385