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Diagnostic procedures in thyroid disease.
Various diagnostic aids may be used to supplement clinical investigation when either the patient is still only suspected of raised or lowered thyroid function, or when the pathology of his thyroid lump still remains in doubt. We shall consider in this paper, the various tests available for assessing the level of thyroid secretory activity; of these there are three main tests and at least three ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1957
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.33.381.312