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Andrew, I think the one you want is:- Prevalence and clinical usefulness of thyroid antibodies in different disease states of the thyroid. Kumar H et al Clinical Endocrinology 1999;50:679-80. Julian > * It is our practice to measure thyroid antibody titres in the > assessment of subclinical hypothyroidism. > * until recently we measured peroxisomal and thyroglobulin antibodies * I > read a paper indicating that the thyroglobulin antibody was generally > unhelpful if peroxisomal measured * we stopped measuring > anti-thyroglobulin * clinician wants to know why * I can't find the paper > * does anyone remember it? Thanku Andrew > > Andrew Taylor > Consultant Clinical Biochemist > Royal United Hospital > Bath UK > ___________________________________________________ Julian H Barth Department of Clinical Biochemistry & Immunology Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds General Infirmary Leeds LS1 3EX tel 0113-392-3416 fax 0113-233-5672 ___________________________________________________ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%