Administration of a single dose of recombinant human thyrotrophin enhances the efficacy of radioiodine treatment of large compressive multinodular goitres

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 300-308

  Silva, Marcia N C ^a   Rubió, Ileana G S ^a   Romão, Rossana ^a   Gebrin, Eloisa M M S ^a   Buchpiguel, Carlos ^a   Tomimori, Eduardo ^a   Camargo, Rosalinda ^b   Cardia, Maria Silvia ^b   Medeiros Neto, Geraldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FMUSP ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IODINE 131; LIOTHYRONINE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RECOMBINANT THYROTROPIN; THIAMAZOLE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; EUTHYROIDISM; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INJECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTOXICOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 1542269641     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01918.x     Document Type: Article

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