Value of thyroid echography in the long-term follow-up of lithium-treated patients

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-41

  Loviselli, Andrea ^a   Bocchetta, Alberto ^b   Mossa, Paola ^a   Velluzzi, Fernanda ^a   Bernardi, Fortunato ^b   Del Zompo, Maria ^b   Mariotti, Stefano ^a  

^a Institute of Internal Medicine   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Goiter; Lithium; Thyroid autoimmunity; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; LITHIUM; MICROSOME ANTIBODY; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG THERAPY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; THYROID GLAND; THYROID WEIGHT;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DRUG MONITORING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOITER; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LITHIUM CARBONATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0030989984     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000119358     Document Type: Article

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