Reference range of thyroid hormones in healthy school-age children: Country-wide data from India

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 51-56

  Marwaha, Raman K ^a   Tandon, Nikhil ^b   Desai, Ankush K ^b   Kanwar, Ratnesh ^a   Aggarwal, Rashmi ^a   Sastry, Aparna ^a   Singh, Satveer ^a   Narang, Archna ^b   Ganguly, Saroj K ^a   Mani, Kalaivani ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c Department of Medicine   (India)

Author keywords

Goiter; Normative data; Thyroid function; TSH; Urinary iodine excretion

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; INDIA; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SCHOOLS; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 72649089885     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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