Reply on the Letter by Stott et al. 'The Dilemma of Treating Subclinical Hypothyroidism: Risk that Current Guidelines Do More Harm than Good'.
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a Endocrine Unit, Evgenidion Hospital, University of Athens, Athens , Greece; b Medizinische Klinik I, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck , Germany; c Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; d Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, and e Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne , and f Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead , UK; g Rotterdam Thyroid Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam , The Netherlands; h Clinique Endocrinologique Marc-Linquette,
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عنوان ژورنال:
- European thyroid journal
دوره 3 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014