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Radioiodine Avid Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Report of a Case

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    Nishikant Damle, Harmandeep Singh, Ramya Soundararajan, Chandrasekhar Bal & Manas Sahoo

  2. Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India

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Damle, N., Singh, H., Soundararajan, R. et al. Radioiodine Avid Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Report of a Case. Indian J Surg Oncol 2, 193–196 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-011-0093-3

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