MEDICAL PRACTICE Occasional Survey Aetiology of Hyperthyroidism m*
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Graves's disease (diffuse toxic goitre) Toxic nodular goitre Multinodular (Plummer's disease) Uninodular (toxic adenoma) Nodular goitre with Graves's disease Excess thyroid stimulating hormone Pituitary tumour Choriocarcinoma and hydatidiform mole Embryonal testicular carcinoma Other malignancy (?) Extraneous thyroid hormone Exogenous: Intentional factitious Overenthusiastic therapy During T-3 suppression test Thyroid hormone induced Endogenous: Metastatic thyroid carcinoma Struma ovarii jod-Basedow (exogenous iodide) Transient, associated with thyroiditis Subacute Hashimoto's Irradiation (D.X.R. or "11I) TSH admninistration Hypothalmic (?) 99 0°j
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