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Graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a Nigerian woman: a case report

Paranoid syndromes in Graves’ disease are rare. The true incidence is lacking. Most reports have emanated from developed countries where medical investigations are readily available. No report of such has emanated from Nigeria. We report a 43-year-old female Nigerian with Graves’ disease associated...

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Autores principales: Ogah, Okechukwu S, Timeyin, Anne O, Kayode, Oluyinka A, Otukoya, Adedeji S, Akinyemi, Rufus O, Adeyemi, Folashade I
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918536
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6708
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author Ogah, Okechukwu S
Timeyin, Anne O
Kayode, Oluyinka A
Otukoya, Adedeji S
Akinyemi, Rufus O
Adeyemi, Folashade I
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Timeyin, Anne O
Kayode, Oluyinka A
Otukoya, Adedeji S
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description Paranoid syndromes in Graves’ disease are rare. The true incidence is lacking. Most reports have emanated from developed countries where medical investigations are readily available. No report of such has emanated from Nigeria. We report a 43-year-old female Nigerian with Graves’ disease associated with paranoid schizophrenia and review the literature.
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spelling pubmed-27693062009-11-16 Graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a Nigerian woman: a case report Ogah, Okechukwu S Timeyin, Anne O Kayode, Oluyinka A Otukoya, Adedeji S Akinyemi, Rufus O Adeyemi, Folashade I Cases J Case report Paranoid syndromes in Graves’ disease are rare. The true incidence is lacking. Most reports have emanated from developed countries where medical investigations are readily available. No report of such has emanated from Nigeria. We report a 43-year-old female Nigerian with Graves’ disease associated with paranoid schizophrenia and review the literature. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2769306/ /pubmed/19918536 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6708 Text en © 2009 Ogah et al..; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ogah, Okechukwu S
Timeyin, Anne O
Kayode, Oluyinka A
Otukoya, Adedeji S
Akinyemi, Rufus O
Adeyemi, Folashade I
Graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a Nigerian woman: a case report
title Graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a Nigerian woman: a case report
title_full Graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a Nigerian woman: a case report
title_fullStr Graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a Nigerian woman: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a Nigerian woman: a case report
title_short Graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a Nigerian woman: a case report
title_sort graves’ disease presenting as paranoid schizophrenia in a nigerian woman: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918536
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6708
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