A report of ten patients with thyroid hemiagenesis: Ultrasound screening in patients with thyroid disease

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 140, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 118-121

  Berker, Dilek ^a   Ozuguz, Ufuk ^a   Isik, Serhat ^a   Aydin, Yusuf ^a   Tutuncu, Yasemin Ates ^a   Akbaba, Gulhan ^a   Guler, Serdar ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Graves' disease; Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Nodular goiter; Thyroid hemiagenesis

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HEMIAGENESIS; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDITIS; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 77249090246     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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