Extraocular muscle repositioning as the last therapeutic option for a patient with a severe course of Graves’ Ophthalmopathy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Graves’ disease is a common autoimmune inflammatory condition of the thyroid. About one in four of affected patients also develop orbital symptoms like exophthalmos, proptosis and diplopia - called Graves’ Ophthalmopathy. Not all patients respond well to the standard therapy of systemic...

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Autores principales: Rau, Andrea, Klopfer, Matthias, Rommel, Niklas, Rau-Fornefeld, Mechthild, Kolk, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29482520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-018-0718-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29482520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-018-0718-1

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