Is chronic autoimmune thyroiditis a systemic disease? [2] (multiple letters)

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 412-413

  Mazziotti, Gherardo ^a   Amato, Giovanni ^a   Carella, Carlo ^a   Vaglio, Augusto ^b   Manenti, Lucio ^b   Corradi, Domenico ^b   Buzio, Carlo ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; THYROID ANTIBODY;

AIRWAY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; AORTITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY; LETTER; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYROID GLAND; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ULTRASOUND; UVEITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; HUMANS; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0142150028     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(03)00429-7     Document Type: Letter

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