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Large pure cystic papillary thyroid cancer in a young female patient despite repeated negative fine-needle aspiration biopsies

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  1. Department of Pathophysiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Boutzios

  2. Second Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Nefeli Tomara & Gerasimos Tsourouflis

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Boutzios, G., Tomara, N. & Tsourouflis, G. Large pure cystic papillary thyroid cancer in a young female patient despite repeated negative fine-needle aspiration biopsies. Hormones 20, 597–598 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42000-021-00273-7

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