A case of Graves' disease associated with autoimmune hepatitis and mixed connective tissue disease

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 173-177

  Inoue, Kaoru ^a   Okajima, Taiichiro ^a   Tanaka, Eisuke ^a   Ando, Bunei ^a   Takeshita, Morishige ^a   Masuda, Akinori ^a   Yamamoto, Masahiro ^a   Sakai, Kouko ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hepatitis; Human leukocyte antigen; Mixed connective tissue disease; Raves' disease

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; HLA ANTIGEN; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NODULAR GOITER;

EID: 0032918068     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.46.173     Document Type: Article

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