Clinical features
Graves' disease is characterised by:
- hyperthyroidism
- diffuse goitre:
- usually only moderately enlarged
- thrill or bruit may be detected on account of increased vascularity
- extrathyroid features:
- Graves' ophthalmology - 40% of cases
- pretibial myxoedema - 5% of cases
- thyroid acropachy - rare
- onycholysis - rare
Reference
- Wémeau JL et al. Graves' disease: Introduction, epidemiology, endogenous and environmental pathogenic factors. Ann Endocrinol (Paris). 2018 Dec;79(6):599-607
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