A Rare Presentation of Euthyroid Orbitopathy in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Anup Sunil Tamhankar
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Tamhankar AS. A Rare Presentation of Euthyroid Orbitopathy in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. Int J Head Neck Surg 2013; 4 (3):145-147.
Its important to rule out coexisting thyroid cancer in patient presenting with orbitopathy even if euthyroid. Orbitopathy may regress after thyroidectomy. Association of thyroid cancer, autoimmunity and orbitopathy is still to be proven due to lack of large case series.
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Chaturvedi P, Vaidya A, Tamhankar AS. A Rare Presentation of Euthyroid Orbitopathy in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. Int J Head Neck Surg 2013;4(3):145-147.
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