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Cheiroarthropathy: A syndrome of limited joint mobility that occurs in patients with diabetes. Cheiroarthropathy is characterized by thickening of the skin resulting in contracture of the fingers. Cheiroarthropathy causes such limited motion of the fingers that the affected individual is unable to extend the fingers to fully flatten the hand. Typically both hands are affected by cheiroarthropathy.
Hypoparathyroidism is a medical condition is caused by a surgeon removing all four of a patient's parathyroid glands. This is a terrible complication of surgery performed on the thyroid or parathyroid glands, and its occurrence should be near zero. It can cause very significant medical problems and can be so severe as to make a person's life quite miserable. Surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid glands can be quite tricky. The parathyroid glands have the most variable anatomy in the body. Because of this, even the most experienced thyroid surgeons in the world could, on occasion, make the mistake of destroying or removing all of a patients parathyroid glands.