The Surgeon
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Health-related quality of life improvement following surgical treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism in a United Kingdom population

Received 14 October 2009 ,Accepted 22 October 2009.

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☆ This paper was presented in the 2007 ASGBI Annual Scientific Meeting as an oral presentation. The abstract was published in British Journal of Surgery 2007;94(Suppl. 2):52.

PII: S1479-666X(09)00006-7

doi: 10.1016/j.surge.2009.10.005

The Surgeon
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 5-8 , February 2010

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