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Soto, G.D., Halperin, I., Squarcia, M. et al. Update in thyroid imaging. The expanding world of thyroid imaging and its translation to clinical practice. Hormones 9, 287–298 (2010). https://doi.org/10.14310/horm.2002.1279
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