Basma Mohammed Medhat Ali Mohammed <br/><br/>
Thyroid dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis /  
 تأثر الغدة الدرقية فى مرضى الروماتويد المفصلى 
Basma Mohammed Medhat Ali Mohammed ; Supervised Hanan Ahmed Kotb Abdallah , Noha Mohammed Hosny Shahin , Sherine Aly Abdelmoniem Elmofty 
 - Cairo :   Basma Mohammed Medhat Ali Mohammed ,   2011 
 - 166P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 
<br/><br/> The aim of this work was to detect the relationship between Rheumatoid arthritis and thyroid dysfunction in the form of thyroid dysfunction and / or thyroid autoimmune disease . Eighty consecutive patients diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) according to the revised American College of Rheumatology criteria of 1988 , attending the outpatient clinic of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department were included in this study 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Antithyroid peroxidase Rheumatoid arthritis  Thyroid dysfunction