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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Ophthalmopathy, Graves (Exophthalmos, dysthyroid eye disease)
Sections: Key Features, Clinical Findings, Diagnosis, Treatment.
Excerpt: | |  A syndrome of clinical and orbital imaging abnormalities caused by deposition of mucopolysaccharides and infiltration with chronic inflammatory cells of the orbital tissues, particularly the extraocular muscles
Usually occurs in association with autoimmune hyperthyroidism (Graves disease) Radioiodine therapy and cigarette smoking increase its severity |
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