Follicular thyroid cancer and Hürthle cell carcinoma: challenges in diagnosis, treatment, and clinical management.

@article{Grani2018FollicularTC,
  title={Follicular thyroid cancer and H{\"u}rthle cell carcinoma: challenges in diagnosis, treatment, and clinical management.},
  author={Giorgio Grani and Livia Lamartina and Cosimo Durante and Sebastiano Filetti and David S Cooper},
  journal={The lancet. Diabetes \& endocrinology},
  year={2018},
  volume={6 6},
  pages={
          500-514
        }
}
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