The efficacy of long term thyrostatic treatment in elderly patients with toxic nodular goitre compared to radioiodine therapy with different doses

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-74

  Takats K I ^a   Szabolcs, I ^a,b   Foldes J ^b   Foldes I ^c   Ferencz, A ^a   Rimanoczy E ^a   Goth M ^a   Dohan O ^a   Kovacs L ^a   Szilagyi G ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c BM Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Old age; Radioiodine treatment; Thyrostatic

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; THIAMAZOLE;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 6544233412     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1212076     Document Type: Article

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