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Benign Multinodular Goiter

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Keywords

  1. Benign multinodular goiter
  2. diagnosis
  3. treatment recommendations

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A. Frilling
Department of General Surgery and Transplantation University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
C. Liu
Department of General Surgery and Transplantation University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
F. Weber
Department of General Surgery and Transplantation University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

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Correspondence: A. Frilling, M.D. Department of General Surgery and Transplantation University Hospital Essen Hufelandstr. 55 45122 Essen, Germany, Email: [email protected]

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