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Coming Up Short
Hochberg Z. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. October 2008.
Well-child checks failed to determine that the growth of a young immigrant girl was severely behind the curve. At the age of 12, routine lab tests showed a TSH of 834—indicating severe hypothyroidism.
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