Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 913-928 , December 2008

Role of thyroid ultrasound in the diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules

  • Teresa Rago, MD (Assistant professor of Endocrinology)
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  • Paolo Vitti, MD (Professor of Endocrinology)

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