A laparoscopic treatment of a suspicious adrenal mass revealing an unsual cause of adrenal incidentaloma
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عنوان ژورنال: Pan African Medical Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1937-8688
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2019.34.28.18239