Iodized salt improves the effectiveness of L-thyroxine therapy after surgery for nontoxic goitre: A prospective and randomized study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 507-513

  Carella, Carlo ^a,b   Mazziotti, Gherardo ^a   Rotondi, Mario ^a   Del Buono, Andrea ^a   Zito, Guido ^a   Sorvillo, Francesca ^a   Manganella, Giovanni ^a   Santini, Luigi ^a   Amato, Giovanni ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THYROID SURGERY; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; IODINE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 0036401164     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2002.01628.x     Document Type: Article

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