Eye signs of Graves' disease and blocking-type thyrotropin receptor autoantibodies

Thyroid

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-98

  Rees Smith, B ^a   Nordmeyer, P ^b   Sanders, J ^a   Furmaniak, J ^a  

^a RSR LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b Allgemeines Krankenhaus Hagen gem GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

EXOPHTHALMOS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE DISEASE; EYELID DISEASE; EYELID RETRACTION; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LETTER; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; AUTOANTIBODIES; EYE DISEASES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 33644765833     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.16.97     Document Type: Letter

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