Clinical case seminar: unraveling the mystery of abnormal thyroid function tests

A 53 year old woman was referred to us because of large goiter, enlarged pituitary and grossly elevated TSH and free T4. The differential diagnosis included a TSH producing adenoma vs. artifactual laboratory tests. A careful step-by step analysis of different possibilities allowed correct diagnosis...

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Autores principales: Barkan, Ariel, Koenig, Ronald J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28702232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40842-015-0010-8
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spelling pubmed-54718492017-07-12 Clinical case seminar: unraveling the mystery of abnormal thyroid function tests Barkan, Ariel Koenig, Ronald J. Clin Diabetes Endocrinol Case Report A 53 year old woman was referred to us because of large goiter, enlarged pituitary and grossly elevated TSH and free T4. The differential diagnosis included a TSH producing adenoma vs. artifactual laboratory tests. A careful step-by step analysis of different possibilities allowed correct diagnosis and treatment. BioMed Central 2015-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5471849/ /pubmed/28702232 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40842-015-0010-8 Text en © Barkan and Koenig. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471849/
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