Clinical significance of autoimmune thyroid disease in myasthenia gravis

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-65

  Weissel, M ^a   Mayr, N ^b   Zeitlhofer, J ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autoimmune thyroid disease; Myasthenia gravis; Thyroid autoantibodies; Thyroid dysfunction

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MICROSOME ANTIBODY; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EYE DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOMA; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0034064219     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1329218     Document Type: Article

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