Approach to management of the patient with primary or secondary intrathoracic goiter

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5155-5162

  Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a   Bonnema, Steen J ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RECOMBINANT THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LUNG FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 78650055204     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2010-1638     Document Type: Article

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