Autonomous Thyroid Adenoma: Only an Adulthood Disease?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Schwab, Karl Otfried ^a   Pfarr, Nicole ^b   van der Werf Grohmann, Natascha ^a   Pohl, Martin ^a   Rädecke, Jochen ^a   Musholt, Thomas ^b   Pohlenz, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOMATIC MUTATION; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY;

EID: 65549170359     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.12.019     Document Type: Article

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