Prophylactic levothyroxine therapy in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1999, Pages

  Schumm Draeger, P M ^a   Padberg, S ^a   Heller, K ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Levo thyroxine; Lymphocyte subsets

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; LEVOTHYROXINE; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN;

ANTIBODY TITER; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUTHYROIDISM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0032877746     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1212157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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