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The Parathyroid Glands

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Ibtissem Oueslati¹, Karima Khiari¹, Néjib Ben Abdallah¹

¹Department of Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tunis El Manar, 1007, Tunis, Tunisia; Department of Endocrinology, Charles Nicolle Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia.

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