Determinants of longterm outcome of radioiodine therapy of sporadic non- toxic goitre

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 783-789

  Le Moli, R ^b   Wesche, M F T ^b   Tiel Van Buul, M M C ^b   Wiersinga, W M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOITER; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 0032982335     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00734.x     Document Type: Article

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