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  1. Department of Clinical Pathology, Geneva University Hospital, 1 rue Michel-Servet, 1211, Genève 14, Switzerland

    Jolanta Gourmaud & Marc Pusztaszeri

  2. Institute of Pathology, Locarno, Switzerland

    Massimo Bongiovanni

  3. Department of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

    Frederic Triponez

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Gourmaud, J., Bongiovanni, M., Triponez, F. et al. Ectopic Thyroid Tissue in the Adrenal Gland. Endocr Pathol 25, 353–355 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12022-013-9255-x

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