Extensive scrotal calcinosis
✍ Scribed by Cenk Demirdöver; Heval Selman Özkan; Baris Sahin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-0130
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