Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 901-911 , December 2008

Epidemiology of thyroid nodules

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.09.019

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Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 901-911 , December 2008

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