Thyroid dysfunction: Reproduction and postpartum thyroiditis

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 381-388

  Lazarus, John H ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Immunology; Postpartum; Pregnancy; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; IODINE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROXINE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ANTIBODY TITER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; FETUS WASTAGE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDITIS;

AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0036868558     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36711     Document Type: Review

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