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Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypothyroidism in Children and Adolescents: Part 2

By endodoc June 17, 2017 Thyroid Disorders No Comments

Hello again.  I want you to appreciate the fact that so far, I have stuck to my goal of at least one entry a week!  In my last entry, I…

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Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypothyroidism in Children and Adolescents: It’s Not Rocket Science

By endodoc June 14, 2017 Thyroid Disorders No Comments

Every week I give lectures to the medical students and resident physicians rotating through the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology.  I try to keep things pretty informal and I usually do…

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DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF HYPOTHYROIDISM: MYTHS, MAGIC, AND MISCONCEPTIONS

By endodoc May 16, 2013 Thyroid Disorders No Comments

Recently, I have been contacted by a number of acquaintances, all of whom have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism.  That in and of itself is not so strange; hypothyroidism is acually…

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Risk Of Exposure To Radioiodine From Japan

By endodoc March 27, 2011 Miscellaneous, Thyroid Disorders No Comments

You probably know that a major earthquake and tidal wave hit Japan a few weeks ago.  One of the many problems associated with this catastrophe was damage to several nuclear…

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What To Do When The Thyroid Test Results Don’t Make Sense

By endodoc June 27, 2010 Thyroid Disorders No Comments

I apologize for not having an endocrinology-based entry for quite a while.  I do appreciate the many nice comments I have received on past entries.  I will try to write…

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To Test Or Not To Test, That Is The Question: A Patient With Enlargement Of The Thyroid?

By endodoc March 14, 2010 Lab Tests, Miscellaneous, Thyroid Disorders No Comments

The Question The other day I got into a discussion with a primary care physician (PCP) about a hypothetical patient.  We had been discussing a case history for an upcoming…

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Is it a big thyroid gland or what?

By endodoc October 27, 2009 Thyroid Disorders No Comments

I haven’t looked in my archives, but I vaguely remember writing something quite a while back about enlargement of the thyroid gland, which is commonly called a goiter (the term…

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More About Congenital Hypothyroidism

By endodoc May 13, 2008 Thyroid Disorders No Comments

In my last entry, I discussed a rare form of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) mostly to make a point about the importance of routine medical care in detecting potentially serious medical…

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Congenital Hypothyroidism: Horses and Zebras

By endodoc May 11, 2008 Thyroid Disorders No Comments

In my last entry, I discussed a bit about the diagnostic process and the importance of first thinking of common disorders and then the rare ones. Here, I will discuss…

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Hypothyroidism: Signs and Symptoms

By endodoc March 22, 2007 Thyroid Disorders No Comments

In recent posts I have discussed what causes hypothyroidism in children and how to diagnose it but I didn’t really discuss typical signs and symptoms. Newborns: don’t wait for clues…

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