Cavallo AF, Mendoza AG, Roldán AB

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ABSTRACT

Graves’s disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in children and adolescents. Generally presents itself as a diffuse goiter, clinical findings of bilateral ophthalmopathy and abnormal laboratory results in the thyroid function test. Sometimes, the psychiatric manifestations become the initial symptoms, what turns the differential diagnoses, from either the primary thyroid disorder or the psychiatric disease, in quite a challenge. Because of the low incidence of psychosis as manifestation of Graves’ disease in children, we present a case of hyperthyroidism and acute psychosis in a child.

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