Case report: Consumptive hypothyroidism consequent to multiple infantile hepatic haemangiomas

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-215

  Cho, Yoon Hi ^a   Taplin, Craig ^a   Mansour, Albert ^a   Howman Giles, Robert ^a   Hardwick, Robert ^a   Lord, David ^a   Howard, Neville J ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acquired hypothyroidism; Consumptive hypothyroidism; Hypothyroidism; Infantile hepatic hemangiomas; Type 3 iodothyronine deiodinase

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; PREDNISOLONE; TECHNETIUM 99M; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEWBORN SCREENING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; THYROID HORMONES; THYROXINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40549126259     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e3282f409c3     Document Type: Article

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