The effect of antithyroid drug pretreatment on acute changes in thyroid hormone levels after 131I ablation for Graves' disease

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3016-3021

  Burch, H B ^a   Solomon, B L ^a   Cooper, D S ^b   Ferguson, P ^a   Walpert, N ^b   Howard, R ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; IODINE 131; LIOTHYRONINE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTOXICOSIS;

ADULT; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; METHIMAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0034913836     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.86.7.3016     Document Type: Article

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