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Discussion| Volume 116, ISSUE 6, P947-953, December 1994

Presidential address: “Asymptomatic” primary hyperparathyroidism: Is parathyroidectomy indicated?

  • Orlo H. Clark
    Correspondence
    Reprint requests: Orlo H. Clark, MD, UCSF/Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero St., San Francisco, CA 94115.
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    Department of Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, and UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif., USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:0039606094902887
Presidential address: “Asymptomatic” primary hyperparathyroidism: Is parathyroidectomy indicated?
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      ☆Supported in part by the Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif.

      ☆☆Presented at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Dearborn, Mich., April 17–19, 1994.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:0039606094902887

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