Amyloid goiter due to primary systemic amyloidosis: A diagnostic challenge

Thyroid

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1051-1054

  Sinha, Ravi N ^a   Plehn, Jonathan F ^a   Kinlaw, William B ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b 714 W Borwell Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; LEVOTHYROXINE; MELPHALAN; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; GOITER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0031773274     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.1998.8.1051     Document Type: Article

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