Covarrubias ER, Sotelo CN, Hurtado VJG, Cázares ZYZ

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ABSTRACT

The Hashimoto´s encephalopathy is a rare illness. Here is presented the case of a young girl with neurological manifestations associated to another of thyroid origin. She had 7 months of evolution of her disease, with neurological manifestations and hypertiroidism, without diagnose neither treatment. The clinical findings and the studies done, shown that it was an Hashimoto’s encephalopathy.

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