Successful outcome after surgical management in two cases of the "painful variant" of Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 259-265

  Gourgiotis, Loukas ^a   Al Zubaidi, Nahrain ^a   Skarulis, Monica C ^a   Papanicolaou, Dimitris A ^a   Libutti, Steven K ^a   Alexander Jr , H Richard ^a   Merino, Maria J ^a   Sarlis, Nicholas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLAMINE; PREDNISONE; AUTOANTIBODY; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDEMA; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NECK PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGEON; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; BLOOD; DYSPHAGIA; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EDEMA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NECK; PAIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; THYROXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036023915     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.8.4.259     Document Type: Article

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