Riedel's thyroiditis presenting with hypothyroidism and hypoparathyroidism: Dramatic response to glucocorticoid and thyroxine therapy

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 815-818

  Lo, Joan C ^a,b   Loh, Keh Chuan ^a   Rubin, Alan L ^a   Cha, Imok ^a   Greenspan, Francis S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; LEVOTHYROXINE; PREDNISONE; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS; THYROXINE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 0031837657     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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