POSTOPERATIVE PROGRESSIVE EXOPHTHALMOS WITH LOW BASAL METABOLIC RATE
Authors: Solomon Ginsburg
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1939)

Article1 September 1939POSTOPERATIVE PROGRESSIVE EXOPHTHALMOS WITH LOW BASAL METABOLIC RATESOLOMON GINSBURG, M.D.SOLOMON GINSBURG, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-13-3-424 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMore than a century and a half has now elapsed since Parry,1in 1786, noted and described exophthalmos in the first classical case of exophthalmic goiter recorded in medical literature. Since then the problem of the etiology and pathogenesis of exophthalmos in association with thyroid disease has been the theme of numerous and intensive studies and investigations—clinical, pathologic and experimental. As the result of these studies, numerous theories of the pathogenesis of exophthalmos have been propounded (table 1), but a complete solution of the problem has not been reached. 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