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Ultrasonography, FNA, mutations, hormones and thyroid nodule obsession in the twenty-first century: a cytopathologist’s plea for reason in the age of thyroid storm

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Schnadig, V.J. Ultrasonography, FNA, mutations, hormones and thyroid nodule obsession in the twenty-first century: a cytopathologist’s plea for reason in the age of thyroid storm. Endocrine 47, 664–667 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-014-0322-y

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