THE USE OF ACTH AND CORTISONE IN THE TREATMENT AND IN THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MALIGNANT EXOPHTHALMOS: A PRELIMINARY REPORT
Authors: L W KINSELL, J W PARTRIDGE, N FOREMAN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1953)

Article1 May 1953THE USE OF ACTH AND CORTISONE IN THE TREATMENT AND IN THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF MALIGNANT EXOPHTHALMOS: A PRELIMINARY REPORTLAURANCE W. KINSELL, M.D., F.A.C.P., JOHN W. PARTRIDGE, M.D., NADINE FOREMAN, M.D.LAURANCE W. KINSELL, M.D., F.A.C.P., JOHN W. PARTRIDGE, M.D., NADINE FOREMAN, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-38-5-913 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe present report comprises the findings in nine patients who have been studied during the past two years, all of whom presented the complaint of exophthalmos of severe or moderately severe degree, in association with obvious or probable thyroid dysfunction.CLINICAL OBSERVATIONSPatient G. T. was referred through the kindness of Dr. Gale Whiting and Dr. Owen Dickson. 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N., and Hertfall, S. J.: Cortisone and ACTH in exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia, Lancet 1: 847, 1952. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Oakland, California*Received for publication March 3, 1953.This material was presented in part at the Graduate Assembly, sponsored jointly by the Alameda Contra Costa County Medical Association and the Institute for Metabolic Research, February 5, 1953.From the Institute for Metabolic Research, Highland Alameda County Hospital, Oakland, California.†Schering Research Fellow in Endocrinology, 1950-52.Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Armour Laboratories for supplies of ACTHAR Gel, to Merck & Company for supplies of Cortone and Hydrocortone used in some of these studies, and to the Schering Corporation for ethinyl estradiol (Estinyl), and testosterone propionate (Oreton). 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