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Boutzios, G., Moutsopoulos, H.M. Microinvasion of lymph nodes from papillary thyroid cancer in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus under immunosuppression. Endocrine 69, 228–229 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-020-02218-3
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