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AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages E1-E4Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-0960.2010.00693.x
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elephantiasis; Graves' disease; plasmapheresis; pretibial myxoedema; rituximab; thyroid dermopathy
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A 44-year-old woman was diagnosed with Graves' disease in 1995 and over the following 12 months developed thyroid dermopathy (pretibial myxoedema). Despite being trialled on multiple recognized therapies over the course of 11 years, the patient's dermopathy progressively worsened. She developed ocular proptosis, elephantiasic thyroid dermopathy and acropachy in both hands. In mid 2006, the patient was started on rituximab and plasmapheresis, with rapid response. The patient's condition stabilized and in October 2009 at the age of 58 years she was able to cease therapy.
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