A Swallowed Metal Nail Entrapped in the Right Psoas Muscle
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1306-696X
DOI: 10.5505/tjtes.2015.66814