Graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma

Hyperthyroidism is a medical problem that is commonly encountered by emergency physicians, internists and endocrinologists. The development of hyperthyroidism in the postoperative setting of hemithyroidectomy is quite rare. Reported causes include destructive thyroiditis and inappropriate thyroid ho...

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Autores principales: Housin, Ahmad, Tamilia, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Case Reports: Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9174819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35606042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-250149
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description Hyperthyroidism is a medical problem that is commonly encountered by emergency physicians, internists and endocrinologists. The development of hyperthyroidism in the postoperative setting of hemithyroidectomy is quite rare. Reported causes include destructive thyroiditis and inappropriate thyroid hormone replacement. Here we report a case of Graves’ disease causing thyrotoxicosis soon after surgery in a woman who underwent hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-91748192022-06-16 Graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma Housin, Ahmad Tamilia, Michael BMJ Case Rep Case Reports: Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury Hyperthyroidism is a medical problem that is commonly encountered by emergency physicians, internists and endocrinologists. The development of hyperthyroidism in the postoperative setting of hemithyroidectomy is quite rare. Reported causes include destructive thyroiditis and inappropriate thyroid hormone replacement. Here we report a case of Graves’ disease causing thyrotoxicosis soon after surgery in a woman who underwent hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9174819/ /pubmed/35606042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-250149 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma
title Graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma
title_full Graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma
title_fullStr Graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma
title_short Graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma
title_sort graves’ thyrotoxicosis soon after hemithyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma
topic Case Reports: Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9174819/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-250149
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