Iodine supplementation: A comparison of oral and intramuscular methods in the improvement of thyroid function and prophylaxis of goitre

Trace Elements and Electrocytes

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 133-135

  Malone, F J ^a   Strain, J J ^a   Gray, A M ^a   Rollins, N C ^b   Metebe, K ^c   Bangu, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Goitre; Intramuscular; Iodine; Oral; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; IODINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDEMIC GOITER; HUMAN; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPPLEMENTATION; TANZANIA; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030016579     PISSN: 09462104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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