Thyroid disease: guidelines for diagnosis and management

Therefore, immunoassays for thyroid antibodies are useful for diagnostic evaluations of thyroid autoimmune disease (1,2,3). Thyroglobulin is a water soluble glycoprotein that is involved in the storage and synthesis of thyroid hormones. The thyroid microsomal antigen has been shown to be the enzyme thyroid peroxidase (TPO). ................
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