Pretreatment prevalence of hypothyroidism in patients with head and neck carcinoma

BACKGROUND Hypothyroidism in the normal population age > 60 years is encountered in the range of 0.5–5% clinically, and 5–20% have subclinical hypofunction. Hypothyroidism is recognized as a common complication of treatment in patients with head and neck carcinoma (HNC) and is reported in up to 7...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cancer 2001-09, Vol.92 (6), p.1512-1515
Hauptverfasser:	Mini, Sharon, Dori, Shay, Horowitz, Zeev, Bedrin, Lev, Peleg, Michael, Wolf, Michael, Shoshani, Yitzhak, Taicher, Shlomo, Kronenberg, Jona, Talmi, Yoav P.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Biological and medical sciences Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - complications combined treatment Female head and neck carcinoma Head and Neck Neoplasms - complications Humans hypothyroidism Hypothyroidism - etiology Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Otorhinolaryngology (head neck, general aspects and miscellaneous) Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology Prevalence Prospective Studies radiation thyroid function tests Thyrotropin - blood Thyroxine - blood Triiodothyronine - blood Tumors
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