An overview of thyroid eye disease

Thyroid eye disease (also known as Graves’ ophthalmopathy) is a complex orbital inflammatory disease, which can be sight threatening, debilitating and disfiguring. This overview discusses the epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis, presentation, ophthalmic clinical features, investigations and tre...

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Autor principal: McAlinden, Colm
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26605355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40662-014-0009-8
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spelling pubmed-46554522015-11-24 An overview of thyroid eye disease McAlinden, Colm Eye Vis (Lond) Review Thyroid eye disease (also known as Graves’ ophthalmopathy) is a complex orbital inflammatory disease, which can be sight threatening, debilitating and disfiguring. This overview discusses the epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis, presentation, ophthalmic clinical features, investigations and treatment of thyroid eye disease. BioMed Central 2014-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4655452/ /pubmed/26605355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40662-014-0009-8 Text en © McAlinden; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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