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Clinical experience with radioactive iodine in the treatment of childhood and adolescent Graves' disease

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Treatments for Graves' disease (GD) in children and adolescents include oral antithyroid drugs (ATDs), near total thyroidectomy, and radioactive iodine (RAI). ATDs remain the preferred choice in this age group, but because persistent remission occurs in 30% of cases, RAI is bec...

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Autores principales: Cury, Adriano N, Meira, Verônica T, Monte, Osmar, Marone, Marília, Scalissi, Nilza M, Kochi, Cristiane, Calliari, Luís E P, Longui, Carlos A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioScientifica 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23781316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EC-12-0049