Unusual case of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis: "Illicit" use of a technetium scan to diagnose a transiently toxic thyroid nodule

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 413-416

  Brian, Susan R ^a   Cheng, David W ^a   Goldberg, Philip A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING; THYROID NODULE; THYROTOXICOSIS;

AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TECHNETIUM; THYROID NODULE; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 34548382517     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.13.4.413     Document Type: Article

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