Hypoglycemic coma masquerading thyrotoxic storm

Internal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 871-874

  Homma, Mari ^a   Shimizu, Saori ^a   Ogata, Masahiro ^a   Yamada, Yoshio ^b   Saito, Tasuku ^a   Yamamoto, Teiji ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convulsion; Graves' disease; Hyperthyroidismposterior leukoencephalopathy; Myopathy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; COMA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; THYROID CRISIS;

BRAIN; COMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; THYROID CRISIS;

EID: 0033226973     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.871     Document Type: Article

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