Medullary thyroid carcinoma of unknown primary origin with synchronous finding of papillary thyroid carcinoma
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عنوان ژورنال: Endokrynologia Polska
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2299-8306,0423-104X
DOI: 10.5603/ep.a2020.0003