Thyroid volumes and iodine status in Egyptian South Sinai schoolchildren

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 548-554

  Abd El Naser Yamamah, Gamal ^a   Kamel, Ashraf Fawzy ^a   Abd El Dayem, Soha ^a   Hussein, Amal Saad ^a   Salama, Hassan ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Goitre; Iodine; South Sinai; Thyroid; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE; IODINE;

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EGYPT; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID NODULE; THYROID WEIGHT; WATER POLLUTANT;

EID: 84879818449     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2012.30952     Document Type: Article

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