Quantitative measurement of thyroid blood flow for differentiation of painless thyroiditis from Graves' disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-45

  Ota, Hisashi ^a   Amino, Nobuyuki ^a   Morita, Shinji ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^a   Kubota, Sumihisa ^a   Fukata, Shuji ^a   Kamiyama, Naohisa ^b   Miyauchi, Akira ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HORMONE BINDING; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS; THYROTOXICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROIDITIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 34250737424     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02832.x     Document Type: Article

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