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Autoimmune thyroiditis and myopathy. Reversibility of myopathic alterations under thyroxine therapy
B Frank1, P W Schönle, J Klingelhöfer
1Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Fed. Rep. of Germany.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A female patient with Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroiditis and myopathic symptoms is reported. Besides a myopathic pattern, widespread spontaneous pathological activity was found in the affected musculature. Under thyroxin therapy, both the clinical picture and the electromyographic findings normalized completely within a few weeks.