Thymic hyperplasia and Graves disease: Management of anterior mediastinal masses in patients with Graves disease

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 534-539

  Yacoub, Ator ^a   Gaitonde, David Y ^a   Wood, Joseph C ^a  

^a EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; LEVOTHYROXINE; SALBUTAMOL; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; EUTHYROIDISM; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FUNCTION TEST; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HEART PALPITATION; HEAT INTOLERANCE; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INCREASED APPETITE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NERVE INJURY; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHRENIC NERVE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; STERNOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYROIDECTOMY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; DYSPNEA; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

EID: 75549085994     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP09025.ORR     Document Type: Article

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