title: Graves' disease with thyrotoxicosis following subacute thyroiditis.
abstract: Two patients are described who manifested the sequential occurrence of Graves' disease and subacute thyroiditis. The literature on this very unusual event is reviewed and speculation is offered on a possible mechanism linking thyroiditis to activation of Graves' disease in susceptible persons.
authors: Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 20307.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Wartofsky
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Schaaf
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D013968:Thyroiditis, Subacute / Q000150:complications*; D013971:Thyrotoxicosis / Q000209:etiology*