Painful immunoglobulin G4-related thyroiditis treated by total thyroidectomy
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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 Medicine, Pathology, and Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea Painful immunoglobulin G4-related thyroiditis treated by total thyroidectomy Ihn Suk Lee, Jung Uee Lee, Kwan-Ju Lee, Yi Sun Jang, Jong Min Lee, and Hye Soo Kim
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