An adolescent with a mediastinal mass, diagnosed with graves disease and thymic hyperplasia

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kubicky, Rita Ann ^a   Faerber, Eric N ^b   De Chadarevian, Jean Pierre ^a   Wu, Shufang ^a   Rezvani, Iraj ^a   De Luca, Francesco ^a  

^a ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Graves disease; Hyperthyroidism; Thymic hyperplasia; TSH receptor

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; THIAMAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM MASS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYROID GLAND; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYMUS GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 76049095231     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-2204     Document Type: Article

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