Ophthalmopathy in the course of Graves-Basedow disease – diagnosis and treatment with regard to the role of the radiotherapy

Ewa Ziółkowska; Maria Kubiak; Tomasz Wiśniewski; Małgorzata Zarzycka

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Contemporary Oncology/Współczesna Onkologia

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Ophthalmopathy in the course of Graves-Basedow disease – diagnosis and treatment with regard to the role of the radiotherapy

Ewa Ziółkowska

,

Maria Kubiak

,

Tomasz Wiśniewski

,

Małgorzata Zarzycka

Współczesna Onkologia (2007) vol. 11; 9 (463–468)

Online publish date: 2007/12/12

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Thyroid ophthalmopathy is a most frequent extrathyroid symptom of the Graves-Basedow disease. The etiology is unknown, but supposes that she has an autoimmunologic basis. For the pathogenesis of ophthalmic symptoms accepts three processes: the infiltration, the swelling and the fibrination of the extraocular tissue. Clinically we favour two forms: gentle which appears more often and infiltration-edematous which worse prognoses. The disease can make for the permanent damage of the vision organ. For with the unknown etiology we can use only the symptomatic treatment such as: steroids, radiotherapy and surgical decompression. Purpose of this study is the performance of the present state of the knowledge on the subject of ophthalmopathy in the course of the Graves-Basedow disease with particular reference to the role of the radiotherapy – methods of the treatments seldom used in nonneoplastic diseases.

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Ophthalmopathy in the course of Graves-Basedow disease – diagnosis and treatment with regard to the role of the radiotherapy

Ewa Ziółkowska , Maria Kubiak , Tomasz Wiśniewski , Małgorzata Zarzycka

Graves ophtalmopathy, radiotherapy, surgical decompression, systemic treatment

Ewa Ziółkowska

,

Maria Kubiak

,

Tomasz Wiśniewski

,

Małgorzata Zarzycka