Twenty years later: A reevaluation of the contribution of plasma thyroglobulin to the diagnosis of thyroid dysgenesis in infants with congenital hypothyroidism

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 818-822

  Djemli, Anissa ^a   Fillion, Marc ^a   Belgoudi, Jaafar ^a   Lambert, Raymond ^a   Delvin, Edgard E ^a   Schneider, Wolfgang ^b   Van Vliet, Guy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Research Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Athyreosis; Congenital hypothyroidism; Ectopy; Scintigraphy; Thyroglobulin; Thyroid dysgenesis

Indexed keywords

AGENESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FUNCTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROGLOBULIN;

EID: 4344632891     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2004.03.011     Document Type: Article

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