Thyroid volume and intrathyroidal blood flow increase during pregnancy [3]

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 828-829

  Fister, Petja ^a   Gaberšček, Simona ^b   Zaletel, Katja ^b   Krhin, Blaž ^b   Geršak, Ksenija ^b   Hojker, Sergej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; THYROTROPIN;

BLOOD FLOW; GOITER; HUMAN; LETTER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THYROID WEIGHT; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THYROID GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33751117725     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02657.x     Document Type: Letter

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