Chronic idiopathic urticaria and antithyroid autoantibodies

Jae-Hyun Lee

doi:10.4168/aard.2013.1.2.103

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Lee: Chronic idiopathic urticaria and antithyroid autoantibodies

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Allergy, Asthma & Respiratory Disease 2013; 1(2): 103-104.

Published online: 27 June 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4168/aard.2013.1.2.103

Chronic idiopathic urticaria and antithyroid autoantibodies

Jae-Hyun Lee

Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Correspondence to: Jae-Hyun Lee. Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Korea. Tel: +82-2-2228-1987, Fax: +82-2-393-6884, jhleemd@yuhs.ac

Received 5 June 2013 Revised 5 June 2013 Accepted 7 June 2013

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).

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