Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) is a bone pathology that can be associated with a number of focal or systemic diseases, particularly those affecting the respiratory system. HOA is characterized by proliferative periostosis of the long bones, especially in their distal and periarticular regions. This report presents a probable case of HOA in the skeleton of an elderly Portuguese male from Év...

The clinical features of Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) with eyelid retraction (Dalrymple’s sign), lid-lag (von Graefe’s sign), lagophthalmos, exophthalmos, motility disorders and dysthyroid optic neuropathy (DON) are all well known. The underlying disease is autoimmune thyroid disease and it is often associated with pretibial myxedema and acropachy. The combination of bilateral exophthalmos, lid ret...

380 CMYK of pain during walking and also profuse hemorrhage after trauma. There was no evidence of entrapment syndromes like trigger finger or carpal-tunnel syndrome. On auscultation over the affected limb, no bruit was audible. However, the left testis was found to be absent (Figure 2). No mass, suggestive of an undescended testis, was palpable in the lower abdomen, inguinal canal or scrotal s...

A classical triad of extrathyroidal manifestations of Graves’ disease known as EMO syndrome (exophthalmos, pretibial myxedema and osteoarthropathy) is a rare condition. This paper presents a 39-year old male patient who underwent chemoand radiation therapy of the supradiaphragmatic area due to Hodgkin’s disease at the age of 35 and 36 leading to remission. Two years later, the patient developed...

6. Discuss the use of laboratory tests to assess thyroid function in a pregnant GD patient. utoimmune diseases of the thyroid gland are the most common autoimmune diseases in humans, and encompass a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, ranging from Graves’ disease (GD), Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO), Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and idiopathic myxedema.1 GD is characterized by the production of a...

INTRODUCTION Graves' hyperthyroidism has a number of well-recognized but relatively rare extrathyroid manifestations such as thyroid acropachy, pretibial myxedema, and congestive heart failure. CASE PRESENTATION A 38-year-old Caucasian woman presented to the out-patient clinic with symptoms of hyperthyroidism lasting for approximately five months. Remarkably, she had developed pitting edema o...