Background: Intraoral radiographs are believed to deliver low doses to patients, thus little work has been done in this regards. Considering the increment in the number of patients reporting for the examination and the probability of delayed somatic effects for accumulated low doses of X-irradiation, it is expedient to determine the doses to three critical organs eye, thyroid and parotid that a...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. In most cases, mediastinal lymph nodes and lung parenchyma are involved. In addition, the eyes, skin, abdominal organs, central nervous system or the joints might be involved during the course of the disease. Sarcoidosis has been found to be related with other autoimmune diseases such as thyroiditis. In this report, we present...

introduction: aim of the study was to determine the efficacy of minor lateral tarsorrhaphy in conjunction with levator muscle recession in thyroid ophthalmopathic patients with severe lid retraction in order to correct the temporal flare in these patients methods: in a before-after clinical trial study, 22 eyelids of 12 patients with severe lid retraction underwent surgery by this method and th...

conclusions we revealed that thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy was associated with iugr and low apgar score even in subclinical forms. further studies are required to determine whether early diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases, even in subclinical form, can prevent their adverse effect on fetus. background maternal thyroid function alters during pregnancy. inadequate adaptation to th...

Patients (pts) with inactive/non-inflammatory thyroid eye disease (TED) previously reported similar negative quality of life as those active/inflammatory TED, using TED-specific Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO-QOL) scores. Mean visual function and appearance scores 58.6 62.3, respectively, indicated significant impact. Here we examined specific areas affected by non-inflammatory TED. An online surve...