By Gerard N. Burrow MD, Jack H. Oppenheimer MD, Robert Volpe MD
This built-in medical reference bargains candid assurance and expert perspectives on thyroid functionality and sickness. conscientiously exact line drawings elucidate the discussions by way of three popular clinicians. insurance contains thyroid hormone biosynthesis, laboratory overview, unhazardous goiter, hyperthyroidism, thyroid illness in being pregnant, malignant ailments, thyroiditis, and masses extra
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