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Thyroid Status Examination — DCE Clinical Case
DCE short-case clinical station: a systematic thyroid status examination of a 48-year-old woman with palpitations, heat intolerance and weight loss, presenting with the Graves-specific eye signs, a diffuse goitre with a bruit, atrial fibrillation, and pretibial myxoedema — the examination routine from behind the patient, the interpretation of findings, the differential diagnosis, the investigation plan, and the examiner discussion questions.
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DCE short-case clinical station: a systematic thyroid status examination of a 48-year-old woman with palpitations, heat intolerance and weight loss, presenting with the Graves-specific eye signs, a diffuse goitre with a bruit, atrial fibrillation, and pretibial myxoedema — the examination routine from behind the patient, the interpretation of findings, the differential diagnosis, the investigation plan, and the examiner discussion questions.
Thyroid Status Examination — Clinical Case
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