| Literature DB >> 79711 |
N Amino, Y Yabu, K Miyai, T Fujie, M Azukizawa, T Onishi, Y Kumahara.
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Thyroid function was tested in untreated patients with Graves' disease or thyrotoxic subacute thyroiditis, and in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis who showed postpartum or spontaneous transient thyrotoxicosis. The serum triiodothyronine/thyroxine ratio (T3/T4) was greater than 20 ng/microgram in Graves' disease but less than 20 in all patients with subacute thyroiditis and 9 of 11 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis. Thus, like radioactive iodine uptake, the serum T3/T4 ratio is useful for differentiating destruction-induced thyrotoxicosis from the stimulation-induced hyperthyroidism of Graves' disease.Entities:
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Year: 1978 PMID: 79711 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(78)92943-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN: 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321