Prevalence of thyroid disorders in the working population of Germany: Ultrasonography screening in 96,278 unselected employees

Thyroid

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 926-932

  Reiners, Christoph ^a   Wegscheider, Karl ^b   Schicha, Harald ^c   Theissen, Peter ^c   Vaupel, Renate ^d   Wrbitzky, Renate ^e   Schumm Draeger, Petra Maria ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Division Henning   (Germany)

^e HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^f KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; GOITER; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID NODULE; WORK;

EID: 10044295120     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2004.14.926     Document Type: Article

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