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Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis
G D Lawrence1, E Chwa, R Balagtas
1Department of Medicine, St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore.
Maryland Medical Journal (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
Periodic flaccid paralysis of skeletal muscle occurring in a thyrotoxic patient, an unusual and dramatic event, is seen predominantly in Oriental men. It is important to remember the clinical association between periodic paralysis and thyrotoxicosis.