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• Then, too, a defect in the glands causes the disease known as myxedema in adults and cretinism in children.
• It assumes variety of forms, the major among them being hypothyroidism also known as myxedema and hyperthyroidism also known as throtoxicosis goitre.
• After description of the myxedema condition, transplantation and injection of extracts of thyroid tissue was tried.
• The patients are usually clinically euthyroid, but signs of hypothyroidism and the myxedema syndrome though rare may occur.