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Hodgson, A., Pakbaz, S., Tayyari, F. et al. Diagnostic Pitfall: Parathyroid Carcinoma Expands the Spectrum of Calcitonin and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Expressing Neuroendocrine Neoplasms. Endocr Pathol 30, 168–172 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12022-019-9572-9
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