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Is thyroid autoimmunity associated with malignancy?

Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism volume 4, pages 196–197 (2008)Cite this article

boxed-textRago T et al. (2007) Clinical features of thyroid autoimmunity are associated with thyroiditis on histology and are not predictive of malignancy in 570 patients with indeterminate nodules on cytology who had thyroidectomy. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 67: 363–369

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