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American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, 2005
Pretibial myxedema or localized myxedema or thyroid dermopathy is an autoimmune manifestation of Graves' disease. It also occasionally occurs in Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Lesions of thyroid dermopathy are usually asymptomatic and have only cosmetic importance. Advanced forms of dermopathy are associated with elephantiasis or thyroid acropachy.
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Pretibial myxedema or localized myxedema or thyroid dermopathy is an autoimmune manifestation of Graves' disease. It also occasionally occurs in Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Lesions of thyroid dermopathy are usually asymptomatic and have only cosmetic importance. Advanced forms of dermopathy are associated with elephantiasis or thyroid acropachy.
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Localized hyperhidrosis in pretibial myxedema
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1990Two cases of spontaneous hyperhidrosis limited to pretibial myxedema lesions were studied. Quantitative measurements of stimulated eccrine sweat were made after the intradermal injection of methacholine. The sweat rate was two to four times greater in the lesional skin than in perilesional skin.
D G, Gitter, K, Sato
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Localized (Pretibial) Myxedema
Postgraduate Medicine, 1964Localized (pretibial) myxedema is a manifestation of Graves' disease and may occur when the patient is euthyroid, hyperthyroid or hypothyroid. It is invariably associated with exophthalmos. Clubbing of the fingers or of fingers and toes may occur.
A C, EDMUNDOWICZ, H K, IVY, R V, RANDALL
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New England Journal of Medicine, 1949
THE term "myxedema" is frequently used as a synonym for "hypothyroidism." It is a matter of common experience, however, that the majority of patients with clinical hypothyroidism do not have either local or generalized mucinous changes in the skin. Local myxedema in euthyroid persons is a familiar entity to the dermatologist.
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THE term "myxedema" is frequently used as a synonym for "hypothyroidism." It is a matter of common experience, however, that the majority of patients with clinical hypothyroidism do not have either local or generalized mucinous changes in the skin. Local myxedema in euthyroid persons is a familiar entity to the dermatologist.
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Tofacitinib Treatment for Pretibial Myxedema
JAMA DermatologyThis case report describes tofacitinib treatment for 2 patients with pretibial myxedema.
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Dermoscopy of pretibial myxedema
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2015Kajohn Rojanametin, Tanaka Masaru
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International Journal of Dermatology, 1992
A, Srebrnik, J, Ophir, S, Brenner
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A, Srebrnik, J, Ophir, S, Brenner
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American family physician, 1985
Pretibial myxedema is a localized dermopathy seen in patients with past or present hyperthyroidism. Massive intradermal deposition of mucin (acid mucopolysaccharide) produces the classic indurated nodules or plaques on the anterior lower legs. Most patients have elevated levels of LATS in their serum; however, this appears to be a marker for the ...
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Pretibial myxedema is a localized dermopathy seen in patients with past or present hyperthyroidism. Massive intradermal deposition of mucin (acid mucopolysaccharide) produces the classic indurated nodules or plaques on the anterior lower legs. Most patients have elevated levels of LATS in their serum; however, this appears to be a marker for the ...
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