Long-term follow-up of antithyroid peroxidase antibodies in patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's thyroiditis) treated with levothyroxine

Thyroid

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 755-760

  Schmidt, Matthias ^a,b   Voell, Michael ^a   Rahlff, Ilka ^a   Dietlein, Markus ^a   Kobe, Carsten ^a   Faust, Michael ^a   Schicha, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 47549110745     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2008.0008     Document Type: Article

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