PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - William J. Levy
AU  - O. Peter Schumacher
AU  - Manjula Gupta
TI  - Treatment of childhood Graves’ disease
DP  - 1988 Jul 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 373--382
VI  - 55
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/4/373.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/4/373.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1988 Jul 01; 55
AB  - Graves’ disease is the most common form of hyperthyroidism in children. Because of complications with either thyroid surgery or antithyroid drug therapy, the authors prefer high-dose radioiodine as the initial treatment of choice. Long-term follow-up studies have not shown an increased incidence of malignancy in the patients or birth defects in their offspring.