Natural course of autoimmune thyroiditis after elimination of iodine deficiency in northwestern Greece

Thyroid

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 289-293

  Zois, Christos ^a   Stavrou, Ioanna ^a   Svarna, Eugenia ^a   Seferiadis, Konstantinos ^a   Tsatsoulis, Agathocles ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IODINE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 33645520604     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.16.289     Document Type: Article

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