Thyroid Function in Legg-Perthes Disease
- 1 December 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 38 (6), 1320-1322
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-195638060-00013
Abstract
The thyroid function of ten patients with Legg-Perthes disease was studied by means of clinical examination, chemical serum protein-bound-iodine determination, and twenty-four-hour thyroid uptakes. Salivary radioactive iodine concentration was also measured in seven of the ten patients. Three patients had slightly elevated serum protein-bound-iodine levels, but the other tests and subsequent normal protein-bound-iodine determinations satisfactorily ruled out hyperthyroidism. Two patients showed definite asymmetry of radioactive-iodine uptake in the thyroid gland. We cannot rule out the possibility of hyperfunctioning adenoma in these patients, but over-all thyroid function was normal. There was no evidence of hypothyroidism in any of the patients.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Studies and Diagnostic Tests of Salivary-Gland and Thyroid-Gland Function with RadioiodineNew England Journal of Medicine, 1954