Transient iodine organification defect in infants with ectopic thyroid glands

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-16

  Al Jurayyan, Nasir A M ^a   El Desouki, Mahmoud I ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; PERCHLORATE; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID SCINTISCANNING;

CHORISTOMA; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; PERCHLORIC ACID; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; TONGUE DISEASES;

EID: 0031012235     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199701000-00003     Document Type: Article

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