Anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation: a report of two cases
✍ Scribed by Carmen Carda; Jaime Ferrer; Marien Vilanova; Amando Peydró; Antonio Llombart-Bosch
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 378 KB
- Volume
- 446
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-2307
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