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Thymectomy for paraneoplastic stiff-person syndrome associated with invasive thymoma

✍ Scribed by Takashi Iwata; Kiyotoshi Inoue; Shinjiro Mizuguchi; Ryuhei Morita; Takuma Tsukioka; Shigefumi Suehiro

Book ID: 113760894
Publisher: CTSNet
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 161 KB
Volume: 132
Category: Article
ISSN: 1097-685X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.03.030

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