Thyroid diseases in sub-Saharan Africa;Thyréopathies en Afrique subsaharienne

Cahiers Sante

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-39

  Sidibé, El Hassane ^a  

^a Centre Medical Marc Sankale   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Goiter; Hyperthyroidism; Hypothyroidism; Iodine; Iodine deficiency; Therapeutics; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; CARBIMAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDEMIC GOITER; FEMALE; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NODULAR GOITER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; CARBIMAZOLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GOITER; GOITER, ENDEMIC; GOITER, NODULAR; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDITIS;

EID: 35248832660     PISSN: 11575999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/san.2007.0058     Document Type: Article

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