anticorps antithyroglobuline

Traductions

• anglais

  Auteur : Labastrou, Éliane, 1992

  Définition

  One of the four autoantibodies often detected in certain thyroid diseases, primarily Hashimoto's thyroiditis, but also in Graves disease and primarily hypothyroidism. It is interpreted as evidence for an auto-immune pathogenesis in these disorders.

  Note :

  [Each of the] autoantibodies directed against thyroglobulin, demonstrable in about 50 to 75 per cent of patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis and in about one-third of patients with other types of thyroiditis, Graves' disease, and thyroid carcinoma.

  Termes :

  1. antithyroglobulin antibody
  2. thyroglobulin antibody