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Etiopathogenesis of Basedow's disease. Trends and current aspects.
Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear medicine - 1 Jan 2015
Leporati P, Groppelli G, Zerbini F, Rotondi M, Chiovato L
Abstract excerpt
Basedow's disease (BD) owes its name to the German physician Karl Adolph von Basedow, who described in 1840 the clinical picture of exophthalmic toxic goitre. More than one century after the seminal paper of Karl von Basedow, the ultimate cause of BD remains to be fully elucidated. In the last years, evidence was accumulated indicating that BD is a polygenic and multifactorial disease that develops as a result of...
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