Ultrasonographic fine-needle aspiration of pathological masses in the head and neck region
✍ Scribed by Ralf Siegert; Peter Küppers; Gustavo Barreton
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 546 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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