Encephalopathy associated to autoimmune thyroid disease: A more appropriate term for an underestimated condition?

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-69

  Cantón, Ana ^a   De Fàbregas, Oriol ^a   Tintoré, Mar ^a   Mesa, Jordi ^a   Codina, Agustí ^a   Simó, Rafael ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antithyroid antibodies; Autoimmune thyroid disease; Encephalopathy; Graves' disease; Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; BRAIN DISEASES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0343729913     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(00)00302-6     Document Type: Article

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