Efficacy of 99mTc-DTPA SPECT/CT in diagnosing Orbitopathy in graves’ disease
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Graves' Orbitopathy
1Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan 2Department of Medicine, Nepean Clinical School, Nepean Hospital, The University of Sydney, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia 3Molecular Thyroid Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Medical Center, 55101 Mainz, Germany ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Endocrine Disorders
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1472-6823
DOI: 10.1186/s12902-019-0340-0