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Incidental diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma due to persistently elevated procalcitonin in a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia: A case report
BACKGROUND: Procalcitonin (Pct) is a common biomarker in clinical practice, especially in the era of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. Although it is frequently used for the diagnosis and prognostication of bacterial infections or sepsis, it is also elevated in a few other conditions, i...
Autores principales: | Saha, Amitabha, Mukhopadhyay, Madhusha, Paul, Souvik, Bera, Arnab, Bandyopadhyay, Tapas |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Baishideng Publishing Group Inc
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36051107 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i20.7171 |
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