Abstract
Eight to twenty months after complete thyroidectomy in the rabbit, well defined skin lesions appear on the dorsum of the feet, which have the characteristics of the lesion ascribed to pellagra. Pellagra-like lesions may also be apparent around the neck and in a circumscribed area about the mouth and nose. Xeropthalmia may also occur. These deficiencies appear in the hypothyroid rabbits on diets that are adequate for normal rabbits.
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