Peculiarities of autoimmune thyroid diseases in children with Turner or Down syndrome: An overview

Italian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Aversa, Tommaso ^a   Lombardo, Fortunato ^a   Valenzise, Mariella ^a   Messina, Maria Francesca ^a   Sferlazzas, Concetta ^a   Salzano, Giuseppina ^a   De Luca, Filippo ^a   Wasniewska, Malgorzata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromosomopathies; Course; Epidemiology; Graves' disease; Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Pathophysiology

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ANTITHYROID AGENT; THIAMAZOLE;

CHILD; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURNER SYNDROME; UPREGULATION; COMORBIDITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANTITHYROID AGENTS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DOWN SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; METHIMAZOLE; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 84930672197     PISSN: 17208424     EISSN: 18247288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13052-015-0146-2     Document Type: Review

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