Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis (1243 page)

BOOK: Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis
2.25Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
   Iodide deficiency goiter or iodide-induced goiter or lithium treatment
   External neck irradiation
   Postsubtotal thyroidectomy
   Neonatal period; increased in first 2–3 days of life due to postnatal TSH surge
   Thyrotoxicosis due to pituitary thyrotroph adenoma or pituitary resistance to thyroid hormone
   Euthyroid sick syndrome, recovery phase
   TSH antibodies

Decreased In

   Toxic multinodular goiter
   Autonomously functioning thyroid adenoma
   Ophthalmopathy of euthyroid Graves disease; treated Graves disease
   Thyroiditis
   Extrathyroidal thyroid hormone source
   Factitious
   Overreplacement of thyroid hormone in treatment of hypothyroidism

Other books

The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
The Impersonator by Mary Miley
RAW by Favor, Kelly
Robot Blues by Margaret Weis, Don Perrin
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shadow Catcher by James R. Hannibal
Michael Eric Dyson by Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
The Sinister Pig - 15 by Tony Hillerman