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Clinical and molecular analysis of thyroid hypoplasia: a population-based approach in southern Brazil.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Jan 2009
Ramos Helton E, Nesi-França Suzana, Boldarine Valter T, Pereira Rosana M, Chiamolera Maria Izabel, Camacho Cleber P, Graf Hans, de Lacerda Luiz, Carvalho Gisah A, Maciel Rui M B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is mainly due to developmental abnormalities leading to thyroid dysgenesis (TD). TD encompasses very distinct morphologic subtypes of disease. This study examined and compared the phenotype in TD variants and searched for genetic alterations in sporadic...
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