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Anderson RJ Sizemore GW Wahnr HW . Thyroid scintigram in familial medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. Clin Nucl Med 1978; 3: 147–51

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Maisey MN . Methods of investigation in the diagnosis and management of thyroid carcinoma. World J Surg 1981; 5: 49–59

Okerlund MD Sommer J Grell T. Clinical importance of the indeterminate nodule in thyroid imaging. The commonest cause of the ‘false negative’ thyroid imaging study. J Nucl Med 1980; 21: 31

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Thompson NW . The thyroid nodule – surgical management. In: Johnston IDA Thompson NW , ed. Endocrine surgery. Guildford: Butterworths, 1983: 14–24

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Maisey MN . Methods of investigation in the diagnosis and the management of thyroid carcinoma. World J Surg 1981; 5: 49–59

Löwhagen T Granberg PO Lundell G Skinnari P Sundblad R Willems JS . Aspiration biopsy cytology (ABC) in nodules of the thyroid gland suspected to be malignant. Surg Clin North Am 1979; 59: 3–18