Clinical characteristics of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis and hypothyroidism in Japan

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 443-451

  Sato, Kanji ^a   Miyakawa, Megumi ^a   Eto, Miyuki ^a   Inaba, Takako ^a   Matsuda, Naoki ^a   Shiga, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ohnishi, Satoshi ^a   Kasanuki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amiodarone; Color flow Doppler sonography; Hypothyroidism; Iodide; Thyrotoxicosis

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; IODIDE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; PREDNISOLONE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; JAPAN; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RADIORECEPTOR ASSAY; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 0032856222     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.46.443     Document Type: Article

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