Time for the endocrinologists to expand their awareness of and contribution to the diagnosis and management of encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroid disease

Hormones

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-38

  Tamagno, Gianluca ^a   Gaoatswe, Gadintshware ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Autoimmune thyroid disease; Encephalopathy; Graves' disease; Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; AWARENESS; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE; ENDOCRINOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; THYROID DISEASE;

EID: 79951468786     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1298     Document Type: Article

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