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How beneficial is radioiodine therapy for treating distant metastases from thyroid carcinoma?

Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism volume 2, pages 610–611 (2006)Cite this article

boxed-textDurante C et al. (2006) Long-term outcome of 444 patients with distant metastases from papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma: benefits and limitations of radioiodine therapy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91: 2892–2899

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