More on biotin treatment mimicking graves' disease: The authors reply

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 375, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 1699-

  Kummer, Sebastian ^a   Hermsen, Derik ^a   Distelmaier, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; STREPTAVIDIN;

ALOPECIA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEPRESSION; DERMATITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FOOD INTAKE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NAIL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

EID: 84992718314     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1611875     Document Type: Letter

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