The odyssey of nontoxic nodular goiter (NTNG) in Greece under suppression therapy, and after improvement of iodine deficiency

Thyroid

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 641-645

  Michalaki, Marina ^a   Kyriazopoulou, Venetsana ^a   Paraskevopoulou, Panagiota ^a   Vagenakis, Apostolos G ^a   Markou, Kostas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IODINE 131 UPTAKE TEST; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TOXIC GOITER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; GREECE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IODINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 46349102918     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2007.0348     Document Type: Article

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