Permanent and Transient Congenital Hypothyroidism in Fayoum, Egypt: A Descriptive Retrospective Study

BACKGROUND: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is one of the most common preventable causes of mental retardation. One important challenge in understanding the epidemiology of CH is that some newborns will have transient CH, a temporary depression of thyroid hormone concentrations that can last from sev...

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Autores principales: Bekhit, Osama E. M., Yousef, Remon M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3695950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23840807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068048

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