Thyroid

Cytology: Diagnostic Principles and Clinical Correlates

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 255-284

  Cibas, Edmund S ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-5329-3.00009-8     Document Type: Chapter

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