Effects of either LT4 monotherapy or LT4/LT3 combined therapy in patients totally thyroidectomized for thyroid cancer

Thyroid

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 323-331

  Regalbuto, Concetto ^a,c   Maiorana, Raffaella ^a   Alagona, Corradina ^b   Di Paola, Roberto ^c   Cianci, Michelangela ^c   Alagona, Giovanna ^a   Sapienza, Salvatore ^b   Squatrito, Sebastiano ^a   Pezzino, Vincenzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b CANNIZZARO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c GARIBALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; LIOTHYRONINE; OSTEOCALCIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TIROIDE AMSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LABORATORY TEST; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; TARGET ORGAN; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROIDECTOMY; URINALYSIS; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 34248677106     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.0084     Document Type: Article

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