Risk of thyroid nodular disease and thyroid cancer in patients with acromegaly--meta-analysis and systematic review.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Acromegaly is a quite rare chronic disease caused by the increased secretion of growth hormone (GH) and subsequently insulin - like growth factor 1. Although cardiovascular diseases remains the most common cause of mortality among acromegalic patients, increased prev...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kosma Wolinski, Agata Czarnywojtek, Marek Ruchala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088787&type=printable
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!