Recent trends in the management of Graves' hyperthyroidism in Japan: Opinion survey results, especially on the combination therapy of antithyroid drug and thyroid hormone

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 509-517

  Mori, Toru ^a   Sugawa, Hideo ^a   Kosugi, Shinji ^a   Ueda, Michiko ^a   Hai, Noritaka ^a   Matsuda, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antithyroid drug; Clinical remission; Graves' disease; Partial thyroidectomy; Radioiodide treatment; TSH receptor antibody (TRAb)

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REMISSION; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0030928630     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.44.509     Document Type: Article

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