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Successful surgical treatment of severe pretibial myxoedema
E K Derrick1, B Tanner, M L Price
1Department of Dermatology, Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove, U.K.
The British Journal of Dermatology
|August 1, 1995
Abstract:
We report a 46-year-old man with severe and long-standing pretibial myxoedema, who responded well to local surgical treatment. This improvement has been maintained over a 12-month period, perhaps because of concomitant treatment with octreotide.