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Peculiarities of autoimmune thyroid diseases in children with Turner or Down syndrome: an overview.
Italian journal of pediatrics - 15 May 2015
Aversa Tommaso, Lombardo Fortunato, Valenzise Mariella, Messina Maria Francesca, Sferlazzas Concetta, Salzano Giuseppina, De Luca Filippo, Wasniewska Malgorzata
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Aim of this commentary is to summarize the salient literature news on the relationships between autoimmune thyroid diseases (ATDs) and either Down syndrome (DS) or Turner syndrome (TS).According to literature reports both Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) and Graves' disease (GD) are more frequent in children with DS or TS than in those without these chromosomopathies.An up-regulation of proinflammatory...
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