antithyroglobulin antibodies

antithyroglobulin antibodies
autoantibodies directed against thyroglobulin, demonstrable in about 50 to 75 per cent of patients with Hashimoto thyroiditis and in about one-third of patients with other types of thyroiditis, Graves disease, and thyroid carcinoma.

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