PECULIAR PRESENTATIONS OF ADULT HYPOTHYROIDISM
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Recently we found six cases of adult-onset hypothyroidism,1,2 one of them is subclinical (normal T4, high TSH), two are familial and one had carpal tunnel syndrome (tingling in the fingers from compression of median nerve in the carpal tunnel).
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