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kpmle2
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A boy is seen at a rural health clinic in Bolivia. He demonstrates significant mental retardation, motor spasticity, and an abnormal gait. The child is also deaf and mute. The patient is of appropriate height and sexual development, and he has no macroglossia or goiter. His mother experienced considerable fatigue and cold intolerance throughout her pregnancy. Thyroid testing is obtained and thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels are found to be normal. What is the cause of this patient’s condition? (A) Autoimmune thyroiditis (B) Current iodine deficiency (C) Dyshormonogenesis (D) Hypopituitarism (E) Iodine deficiency late in pregnancy and after birth (F) Maternal iodine deficiency during early pregnancy (G) Thyroid dysgenesis
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ngaybinhyen
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I think it is F ** 2 clinical forms of endemic cretinism 1. neurologic form: mental retardation, spasticity, ataxia, deaf-mutism. Thyroid function and stature are usually normal. Iodine deficiency in early fetal life is thought to be the cause 2. myxedematous form: marked growth delay, myxedema, and mental retardation without other neurologic features 
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ngaybinhyen wrote: I think it is F ** 2 clinical forms of endemic cretinism 1. neurologic form: mental retardation, spasticity, ataxia, deaf-mutism. Thyroid function and stature are usually normal. Iodine deficiency in early fetal life is thought to be the cause 2. myxedematous form: marked growth delay, myxedema, and mental retardation without other neurologic features JEJE I was that is cretinism then I was looking for the option that went with that. good one
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ngaybinhyen
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Good question Thanks, kpmle2
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