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Muscular diseases in hyperthyroidism.
Pissarra, F; Carvalho, M; Morais, C; Fortuna, J; Gonçalves, J G; João Neto, MHyperthyroidism may present various muscular diseases, namely thyrotoxic chronic myopathy, myasthenia gravis, disthyroid ophthalmopathy and thyrotoxic periodic paralysis. Although infrequent, it is possible to find some of these clinical situations in a medical ward of a general hospital. Differential diagnosis must be made with chronic idiopathic polymyositis and certain congenital myopathies. We describe thre...
Malignant histiocytosis.
João Neto, M; Coucelo, J; Teixeira, A; Ferreira, O; Miraldo, MThe authors report a case of malignant histiocytosis, with sub acute evolution and fatal outcome in a 36 year old male, presenting with fever, hemoptysis, splenomegaly, parietal mass, anemia and bilateral pulmonary nodules. Despite one transbronchial pulmonary biopsy non diagnostic, both myelogram and histology of parietal tumor aroused the suspicion of malignant histiocytosis, later confirmed through a broncho...