The course of Graves' ophthalmopathy is not influenced by near total thyroidectomy: A case-control study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 503-508

  Marcocci, C ^a,d   Bruno Bossio, G ^a   Manetti, L ^a   Tanda, M L ^a   Miccoli, P ^e   Iacconi, P ^b   Bartolomei, M P ^c   Nardi, M ^e   Pinchera, A ^a   Bartalena, L ^a  

^a Dipto di Endocrinol e Metabolismo   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Chirurgia   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d Ambulatorio di Medicina del Lavoro   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; LEVOTHYROXINE; THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIMAZOLE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0032719925     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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