[Atypical clinical variants of hypothyrosis].

Timely diagnosis of hypothyrosis was noted in 34% of patients only. Considerable difficulties in the diagnosis of disease were associated with an atypical course of disease in a number of patients. The authors discuss some problems of a clinical picture of hypothyrosis with arterial hypertension, sympatico-adrenal crises, polyserositis, pituitary adenoma, amenorrhea-lactorrhea, premature puberty in boys; they also discuss pathogenesis of sexual advancement of a number of pubertal features in Van Wyk-Grambooh syndrome. Hennes-Ross syndrome was identified as a separate entity.