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One of the basic caveats in endocrinology is that glandular abnormalities tend to occur together. As many as 25% of patients with evidence of hypofunction in one gland have evidence of other end organspecific or non-specific autoimmune disease.
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Blecher, M. (1989). Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome and Bronchial Asthma. In: den Boer, N.C., van der Heiden, C., Leijnse, B., Souverijn, J.H.M. (eds) Clinical Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0753-2_17
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