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A REVIEW OF THE RECENT LITERATURE, WITH THE REPORT OF A CASE OF PROGRESSIVE POSTTHYROIDECTOMY PROPTOSIS IN A SIX YEAR OLD NEGRO GIRL

MAJOR GEORGE M. HAIK

Arch Surg. 1944;48(3):214-222.

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Exophthalmos has been recognized as a phase of the syndrome of hyperthyroidism literally since the recognition of the disease, as the nomenclature of exophthalmic goiter shows. Persistent or progressive post-thyroidectomy exophthalmos has been recognized as a possible undesirable and a potentially serious sequel of the operation almost from the time the surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism was introduced. The successful therapy of postoperative exophthalmos, however, is little more than a decade old, and intensive study of the problem of both preoperative and postoperative proptosis has been carried out for an even shorter time, so short a time, in fact, that Means's¹ statement in 1942 that "a new specialty of endocrinologic ophthalmology is a-borning" seems unduly optimistic.

CAUSATION OF EXOPHTHALMOS ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERTHYROIDISM

Statements concerning the clinical aspects of exophthalmos are widely divergent. Paulson² and Cattell³ could find no correlation between the severity of the hyperthyroidism and the degree . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

From the 64th General Hospital, and from Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans.

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