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Establishment of a Simple and Effective Rat Model for Intraoperative Parathyroid Gland Imaging
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LOW INTRATHORACIC PARATHYROID ADENOMA: LARGE FUNCTIONING TUMOR REPRESENTING FIFTH PARATHYROID, OPPOSITE EIGHTH DORSAL
Annals of Surgery
|February 1, 1964
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