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Disease myopathy
Phenotype C0020550|hyperthyroidism
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PubMedID- 24616760 hyperthyroidism is associated with proximal myopathy, hypothyroidism can cause creatine phosphokinase elevation, and rare cases of polymyositis have been described with thyroid dysfunction (1).
PubMedID- 22952313 Children presenting with ophthalmoplegia and ptosis without proptosis should be evaluated for hyperthyroidism if no evidence of a myopathy or disorder of neuromuscular junction transmission is found.
PubMedID- 24167418 hyperthyroidism can cause of myopathy, myasthenia gravis and polyneuropathy in 67% [2, 4].

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