Thyroid dysfunction: How to manage overt and subclinical disease in older patients

Geriatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 32-41

  Wallace, Kathleen ^a   Hofmann, Mary T ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG MONITORING; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0031684566     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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