TY - BOOK AU - Basma Mohammed Medhat Ali Mohammed AU - Hanan Ahmed Kotb Abdallah , AU - Noha Mohammed Hosny Shahin , AU - Sherine Aly Abdelmoniem Elmofty , TI - Thyroid dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Basma Mohammed Medhat Ali Mohammed , KW - Antithyroid peroxidase KW - Rheumatoid arthritis KW - Thyroid dysfunction N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ER -