Activating thyrotropin receptor mutations in histologically heterogeneous hyperfunctioning nodules of multinodular goiter

Thyroid

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 559-564

  Tonacchera, Massimo ^a,b   Vitti, Paolo ^a   Agretti, Patrizia ^a   Giulianetti, Barbara ^a   Mazzi, Barbara ^a   Cavaliere, Rossana ^a   Ceccarini, Giovanni ^a   Fiore, Emilio ^a   Viacava, Paolo ^b   Naccarato, Antonio ^b   Pinchera, Aldo ^a   Chiovato, Luca ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Endocrinologia   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; ISOLEUCINE; LIOTHYRONINE; METHIONINE; THREONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GENE MUTATION; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 13144255717     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.1998.8.559     Document Type: Article

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