Orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature

Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a condition mainly associated with Graves' disease. We report a patient with moderate-tosevere TED who underwent a combination of intravenous and oral steroids and orbital radiotherapy that improved her visual acuity and colour vision drastically, and decreased uppe...

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Autor principal: Luu, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150385
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description Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a condition mainly associated with Graves' disease. We report a patient with moderate-tosevere TED who underwent a combination of intravenous and oral steroids and orbital radiotherapy that improved her visual acuity and colour vision drastically, and decreased upper lid oedema. We review the clinical features of this unusual condition, our patient's history and treatment, and the knowledge base from the current literature.
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spelling pubmed-61808662018-10-25 Orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature Luu, Andrew BJR Case Rep Case Report Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a condition mainly associated with Graves' disease. We report a patient with moderate-tosevere TED who underwent a combination of intravenous and oral steroids and orbital radiotherapy that improved her visual acuity and colour vision drastically, and decreased upper lid oedema. We review the clinical features of this unusual condition, our patient's history and treatment, and the knowledge base from the current literature. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6180866/ /pubmed/30363645 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150385 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature
title Orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature
title_full Orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature
title_fullStr Orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature
title_short Orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature
title_sort orbital radiotherapy for thyroid eye disease: case report with a review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150385
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