Painful immunoglobulin G4-related thyroiditis treated by total thyroidectomy
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Painful immunoglobulin G4-related thyroiditis treated by total thyroidectomy
Copyright © 2016 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Departments of Internal Medici...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1226-3303,2005-6648
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2014.283