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Is infection, injury, or diabetic dermopathy responsible?

Diagnosis implicates high triglycerides as a contributor

Alcoholism, liver dysfunction highly linked with rare disease of unknown etiology

Surgery may not always be the best option, case report finds

Diagnosis of this rare disease is often a challenge

Here's how surgeons discovered and successfully excised the problem

Case shows confluence of hormone therapy cost and limited resources in developing areas

Case shows possible dangers even in hyperfunctioning "hot versus hypofunctioning "cold nodule

Case authors report an unexpected paradoxical effect

The long delay to diagnosis and treatment caused frightening symptoms

Case shows importance of accurate preop diagnosis

Hint: check the hormonal involvement

Mystery yields to unusual solution

Lab tests, physical exam not helpful -- but history-taking offers a clue