TY - JOUR T1 - Treatment of childhood Graves’ disease JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine JO - Cleve Clin J Med SP - 373 LP - 382 VL - 55 IS - 4 AU - William J. Levy AU - O. Peter Schumacher AU - Manjula Gupta Y1 - 1988/07/01 UR - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/4/373.abstract N2 - 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. ER -