title: Thyroid eye disease (TED)--a current understanding.
abstract: Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) provides a clinical meeting place for physician, ophthalmologist and immunologist. Some past difficulties in understanding this disease may have reflected too narrow specialization. In this presentation only three eponymous terms will be used --Graves' Disease, Plummer's Disease and Hashimoto's Disease.
mesh_terms: D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D005133:Eye Movements; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000502:physiology; D018828:Immunoglobulins, Thyroid-Stimulating; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000639:trends; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D018828:Immunoglobulins, Thyroid-Stimulating