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The “Lost Caravaggio”: a probable case of goiter in seventeenth-century Italy

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  1. Laboratories of Physical Anthropology and Ancient DNA, Department of Cultural Heritage (DBC), University of Bologna, Via degli Ariani n 1, 48121, Ravenna, Italy

    M. Traversari & G. Gruppioni

  2. Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    F. J. Rühli & F. M. Galassi

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Traversari, M., Rühli, F.J., Gruppioni, G. et al. The “Lost Caravaggio”: a probable case of goiter in seventeenth-century Italy. J Endocrinol Invest 39, 1203–1204 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40618-016-0492-y

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