Thyrotropin receptor autoantibodies are associated with continued thyrotropin suppression in treated euthyroid Graves' disease patients

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 4135-4138

  Brokken, Leon J S ^a,b   Wiersinga, Wilmar M ^a   Prummel, Mark F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; LIOTHYRONINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE BINDING INHIBITORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIMAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0141453069     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-030430     Document Type: Article

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