Natural History of Asymptomatic Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: Time-Dependent Changes in Calcification and
Ashwini Reddy1, Sabaretnam Mayilvaganan2
1Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
World Journal of Surgery
|February 26, 2016
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