Graves' disease and thymic hyperplasia: The relationship of thymic volume to thyroid function

Thyroid

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1015-1018

  Popoveniuc, Geanina ^a   Sharma, Meeta ^a   Devdhar, Madhuri ^a   Wexler, Jason A ^a   Carroll, Nancy M ^a   Wartofsky, Leonard ^a   Burman, Kenneth D ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILTIAZEM; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL; THIAMAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HYPERPLASIA; THYROTOXICOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; DILTIAZEM; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIMAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PREDNISONE; PROPANOLAMINES; PROPRANOLOL; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956540029     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2009.0383     Document Type: Article

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