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A Triad of Exophtalmos, Pretibial Myxedema and Acropachy in a Patient With Graves’ Disease / Egzoftalmus, pretibijalni miksedem i akropatija − trijada prisutna kod obolelog od Grejsove bolesti Cover

A Triad of Exophtalmos, Pretibial Myxedema and Acropachy in a Patient With Graves’ Disease / Egzoftalmus, pretibijalni miksedem i akropatija − trijada prisutna kod obolelog od Grejsove bolesti

Serbian Journal of Dermatology and Venereology
Volume 4 (2012): Issue 2 (June 2012)
By: Mirjana Paravina,  Milenko Stanojević,  Mirjana Veličković,  Stanoje Petrović and  Mirjana Milosavljević  
Open Access
|Feb 2013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10249-012-0008-5 | Journal eISSN: 2406-0631
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Language: English
Page range: 85 - 91
Published on: Feb 12, 2013
Published by: Serbian Association of Dermatovenereologists (SAD)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Graves’ Disease,
Exophthalmos,
Myxedema,
Osteoarthropathy,
Primary Hypertrophic,
Syndrome
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Dermatological and veneral diseases

© 2013 Mirjana Paravina, Milenko Stanojević, Mirjana Veličković, Stanoje Petrović, Mirjana Milosavljević, published by Serbian Association of Dermatovenereologists (SAD)
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