Clinical characteristics of 852 patients with subacute thyroiditis before treatment

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 725-729

  Nishihara, Eijun ^a   Ohye, Hidemi ^a   Amino, Nobuyuki ^a   Takata, Kazuna ^a   Arishima, Takeshi ^a   Kudo, Takumi ^a   Ito, Mitsuru ^a   Kubota, Sumihisa ^a   Fukata, Shuji ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypoechogenic area; Recurrence; Seasonal cluster; Subacute thyroiditis; Thyrotoxicosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBACUTE THYROIDITIS; SUMMER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROTOXICOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; BLOOD; ENZYMOLOGY; INCIDENCE; LIVER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; THYROID GLAND;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROIDITIS, SUBACUTE;

EID: 44649193319     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0740     Document Type: Article

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