A Patient With Gardner's Syndrome and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Presenting With Extra-abdominal Desmoid Tumors and Diffuse Intestinal Polyposis
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A Patient With Gardner's Syndrome and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Presenting With Extra-abdominal Desmoid Tumors and Diffuse Intestinal Polyposis
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عنوان ژورنال: ACG Case Reports Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2326-3253
DOI: 10.14309/crj.2015.31