Stiff-person syndrome associated with invasive thymoma: a case report
β Scribed by Hiroki Hagiwara; Setsu Enomoto-Nakatani; Katsuyuki Sakai; Yoshikazu Ugawa; Susumu Kusunoki; Ichiro Kanazawa
- Book ID
- 119465460
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Volume
- 193
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-510X
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