Relationship of antibodies to thyrotropin receptors and to thyroid ultrasonographic volume in euthyroid and hypothyroid patients with autoimmune thyroiditis

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 641-645

  Rieu, Max ^a,b   Portos, Catherine ^a   Lissak, Bruno ^a   Laplanche, Sophie ^a   Sambor, Boris ^a   Berrod, Jean Louis ^a   Fombeur, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Saint Michael Hospital   (France)

^b Hopital Saint Michel   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYXEDEMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 0030020559     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.2.641     Document Type: Article

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