Measurement of thyroid blood flow area is useful for diagnosing the cause of thyrotoxicosis

Thyroid

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1249-1252

  Kurita, Seiichiro ^a   Sakurai, Masaru ^a   Kita, Yuki ^a   Ota, Tsuguhito ^a   Ando, Hitoshi ^a   Kaneko, Shuichi ^a   Takamura, Toshinari ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; LIOTHYRONINE; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDITIS; THYROTOXICOSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; THYROTOXICOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 29244431644     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2005.15.1249     Document Type: Article

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