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Abbreviations
ATA, American yroid Association; ART, antiretroviral therapy; ATD; anti-thyroid
drugs; AUS/FLUS; atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined
significance; CM, carbimazole; FNA, fine needle aspiration; FT4, free thyroxine; LT4,
levothyroxine; MMI, methimazole; PTC, papillary thyroid carcinoma; PTMC, papillary
thyroid microcarcinoma; PPT, postpartum thyroiditis; PTU, propylthiouracil; SFN,
suspicious for follicular neoplasm; SUSP, suspicious; T3, triiodothyronine; T4, thyroxine;
Tg, thyroglobulin; TRAb, thyrotropin receptor antibodies; TPO, thyroid peroxidase;
TPOAb, autoantibodies to thyroid peroxidase; TSH, thyrotropin; TT4, total T4; ULRR,
upper limit of the reference range
Source
Alexander EK, Pearce EN, Brent GA, Brown RS, Chen H, Dosiou C, Grobman W,
Laurberg P, Lazarus JH, Mandel SJ, Peeters R, Sullivan S. 2016 Guidelines of the
American yroid Association for the Diagnosis and Management of yroid Disease
during Pregnancy and the Postpartum. yroid. 2017 Jan 6. doi: 10.1089/thy.2016.0457.
[Epub ahead of print]
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