Sternocleidomastoid muscle flaps following parotidectomy
✍ Scribed by Gh.C. Timoşca
- Book ID
- 119153270
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 143 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0266-4356
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