Surgical Significance of Supernumerary Parathyroid Glands in Renal Hyperparathyroidism
β Scribed by Masahiro Numano; Yoshihiro Tominaga; Kazuharu Uchida; Akira Orihara; Yuji Tanaka; Hiroshi Takagi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 636 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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