Predicting thyroxine requirements following total thyroidectomy

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 384-387

  Mistry, Dipan ^a   Atkin, Stephen ^b   Atkinson, Helen ^a   Gunasekaran, Sinnappa ^a   Sylvester, Deborah ^a   Rigby, Alan S ^c   England, R James ^a  

^a CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79851480298     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03940.x     Document Type: Article

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