Hashimoto's Thyroiditis Concomitant with Sequential Autoimmune Hepatitis, Chorea and Polyserositis: A New Entity of Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome?
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.52.6799