About a rare disease misdiagnosed as malignant lymphoma or tuberculosis: Kikuchi-Fujimoto’s disease
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عنوان ژورنال: Pan African Medical Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1937-8688
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2018.31.77.16569