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West Indian med. j
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53(1): 47-49, Jan. 2004.
Artículo
en Inglés
| LILACS
| ID: lil-410562
RESUMEN
This paper reports the case of a 21-year-old Afro-Caribbean pregnant woman with hyperthyroidism and hypokalaemic quadriparesis and reviews the literature on the topic. Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis is a very rare condition in the Caribbean. This case reminds West Indian physicians to consider this rare condition in any patient that presents with paralysis
Asunto(s)
Humanos , Femenino , Embarazo , Adulto , Tirotoxicosis , Complicaciones del Embarazo/diagnóstico , Hipopotasemia/etiología , Parálisis/etiología , Antitiroideos , Tirotoxicosis , Población Negra , Carbimazol/uso terapéutico , Complicaciones del Embarazo/tratamiento farmacológico , Hipopotasemia/tratamiento farmacológico , Potasio/uso terapéutico
2.
J. clin. pathol
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33(6): 544-6, 1980.
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en Inglés
| AIM
| ID: biblio-1263521
RESUMEN
Malignant myeloma is not rare in tropical Africa. Its mode of presentation in Malawi is most often that of a tumour mass in bone. The types of immunoglobulin heavy and light chains in the tumour cells occur with a frequency similar to that observed in temperate countries