Usefulness of fine-needle aspiration in parotid diagnostics
✍ Scribed by Attilio Carlo Salgarelli; Paolo Capparè; Pierantonio Bellini; Marco Collini
- Book ID
- 106241955
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1865-1550
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