Estimation of antithyroid drug dose in Graves' disease: Value of quantification of thyroid blood flow with color duplex sonography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1137-1141

  Saleh, Andreas ^a   Fürst, Günter ^a   Feldkamp, Joachim ^a   Godehardt, Erhard ^a   Grust, Andreas ^a   Mödder, Ulrich ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color flow mapping; Doppler; Graves' disease; Methimazole; Thyroid gland; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; CORRELATION METHODS; DRUG DOSAGE;

SONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

CARBIMAZOLE; THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DOSE RESPONSE; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIMAZOLE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THYROID GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0034877734     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(01)00410-0     Document Type: Article

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