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Thyroid tumors are rare in the pediatric age group.
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Al-Salem, A.H. (2020). Thyroid Tumors in Children. In: Atlas of Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29211-9_71
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