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Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

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Gimm, O. (2007). Surgery for Medullary Thyroid Cancer. In: Oertli, D., Udelsman, R. (eds) Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68043-7_11

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