The role of selenium, vitamin C, and zinc in benign thyroid diseases and of selenium in malignant thyroid diseases: Low selenium levels are found in subacute and silent thyroiditis and in papillary and follicular carcinoma

BMC Endocrine Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Moncayo, Roy ^a,b   Kroiss, Alexander ^b   Oberwinkler, Manfred ^b   Karakolcu, Fatih ^b   Starzinger, Matthias ^b   Kapelari, Klaus ^b   Talasz, Heribert ^b   Moncayo, Helga ^a  

^a WOMED   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; LIOTHYRONINE; SELENIUM; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; ZINC;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTICE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDITIS;

EID: 40749131701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6823-8-2     Document Type: Article

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