What can the European Multicenter Trial on the treatment of Graves' disease with antithyroid drugs teach us about the course of thyroid-associated orbitopathy (TAO)?

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 5, 1999, Pages

  Benker, G ^b   Kahaly, G J ^a   Reinwein, D ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Antithyroid drugs; Thyroid associated orbitopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; LEVOTHYROXINE; THIAMAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; EUROPE; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORBIT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032727832     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1212182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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