Bizarre Clinical Manifestations of Hyperthyroidism

Abstract

THE diagnosis of hyperthyroidism is usually easy A for the physician. The classic manifestations of the disease are quickly recognized even by those with little clinical experience. Although textbooks refer to masked hyperthyroidism, clinical descriptions of occult forms of the disease are singularly meager. Sattler,1 an ophthalmologist, recognized and carefully described many of these bizarre forms late in the nineteenth century. We are presenting case histories in some detail for the physician who is interested in following the deceptive preludes, the confirmation of the diagnosis and the response to treatment of patients whose hyperthyroidism was masked or bizarre in its . . .