Extracervical fibrosclerosis causing obstruction of a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt in a patient with hydrocephalus and invasive fibrous thyroiditis (Riedel's struma)

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 107-111

  Natt, Neena ^a   Heufelder, Armin E ^b   Hay, Ian D ^a   Grant, Clive S ^a   Goellner, John R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; FIBROSCLEROSIS; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROIDITIS;

EID: 0030795516     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1997.1941028.x     Document Type: Article

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