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Pediatric Graves’ disease: management in the post-propylthiouracil Era

The most prevalent cause of thyrotoxicosis in children is Graves’ disease (GD), and remission occurs only in a modest proportion of patients. Thus most pediatric patients with GD will need treatment with radioactive iodine (RAI; (131)I) or surgical thyroidectomy. When antithyroid drugs (ATDs) are pr...

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Autor principal: Rivkees, Scott A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4118280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25089127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-9856-2014-10