Epidemiological characteristics of children with autoimmune thyroid disease

Hormones

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 207-214

  Skarpa, Vasiliki ^a   Kousta, Eleni ^a   Tertipi, Athanasia ^a   Anyfandakis, Konstantinos ^a   Vakaki, Marina ^a   Dolianiti, Maria ^a   Fotinou, Aspasia ^a   Papathanasiou, Asteroula ^a  

^a P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autoimmune thyroiditis; Goiter; Hashimoto thyroiditis; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid nodules; Thyroid ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC WARD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID WEIGHT;

EID: 80052905451     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1310     Document Type: Article

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