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Thyroid function tests.
atrial fibrillation or osteoporosis and makes the illogical extrapolation that a patient given a dose of thyroxine that suppresses or brings the serum thyroxine concentration to higher than the reference range is receiving too much replacement. It is excusable for doctors to believe that if the serum thyroxine concentration is higher than the so-called normal range that the dose of thyroxine sh...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.22.1.113-b