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Indicators of newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism in Sri Lanka: program challenges and way forward

BACKGROUND: Many of the countries in the Asia Pacific Region are just initiating newborn screening programs for selected metabolic and other congenital disorders. The present study is aimed at evaluating the congenital hypothyroidism screening program in the Southern region of Sri Lanka in terms of...

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Autores principales:	Hettiarachchi, Manjula, Amarasena, Sujeewa
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167276/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25212576 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-385

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