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Graves' dermopathy: does octreotide scintigraphy predict the response to octreotide treatment?
J P Kuyvenhoven1, J W van der Pijl, B M Goslings
1Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Leiden, The Netherlands.
Thyroid : Official Journal of the American Thyroid Association
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
We report on three patients with severe Graves' dermopathy who were treated with octreotide despite a negative octreotide scintigraphy. One patient showed a complete recovery while two others had a partial response. In contrast to active Graves' ophthalmopathy, an octreotide scintigraphy appears not to be useful for pretreatment identification of patients with Graves' dermopathy who are likely to respond to octreotide treatment.