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Thyroid heterogeneity, as indicated by the CV of ultrasonographic intensities, correlates with anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies in euthyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively evaluate the heterogeneous appearance of the thyroid gland, reflecting inflammation and destruction in euthyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT), we investigated the clinical utilities of the heterogeneity index (HI) [the coefficient of variance (CV) of the ultrasonographic...

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Autores principales: Wakita, Yosuke, Nagasaki, Toshiki, Nagata, Yuki, Imanishi, Yasuo, Yamada, Shinsuke, Yoda, Koichiro, Emoto, Masanori, Ishimura, Eiji, Inaba, Masaaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3610302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23522401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-6614-6-5