TY - BOOK AU - Abdelmoneim Medhat Hamed Elemary AU - Khaled Tahsin Elhadidi , AU - Mohammed Abdelhafeez Mansour , AU - Mohammed Mahmoud Elwakd , TI - Thyroid dysfunction and thyroid autoantibodies in Egyptian patients with SLE and its impact on the musculoskeletal manifestations of the disease / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Abdelmoneim Medhat Hamed Elemary , KW - Autoantibodies KW - SLE KW - Thyroid gland N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - SLE is a chronic, autoimmune, multifaceted inflammatory disease that can affect any organ system of the body. One of the commonest organs to be affected by organ-specific autoimmune injury is the thyroid gland. Many studies discussed its prevalence. Hypothyroidism found to be the most common abnormality. These studies also found that thyroid autoantibodies found more frequently in SLE patients than general population ER -