High-Altitude Pituitary–Thyroid Dysfunction on Mount Everest

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 308, Issue 19, 1983, Pages 1135-1138

  Mordes, John P ^a   Blume, F Duane ^a   Boyer, Stephen ^a   Zheng, Miao Rong ^a   Braverman, Lewis E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0020519481     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198305123081906     Document Type: Article

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