Does normal thyroid gland by ultrasonography match with normal serum thyroid hormones and negative thyroid antibodies?

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 630-632

  Trimboli, P ^a   Rossi, F ^a,c   Condorelli, E ^a   Laurenti, O ^a   Ventura, C ^a   Nigri, G ^b   Romanelli, F ^c   Guarino, M ^a   Valabrega, S ^b  

^a Piazza San Bartolomeo All'Isola 21   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

serum thyroid hormones; thyroid antibodies; thyroid function; thyroid ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, THYROID-STIMULATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958129090     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1237700     Document Type: Article

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