Actinomycotic Brain Abscess Developed 10 Years after Head Trauma
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Actinomycotic Brain Abscess Developed 10 Years after Head Trauma
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Actinomyces species are members of the endogenous flora of mucous membranes, and are freque...
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عنوان ژورنال: Korean Journal of Pathology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1738-1843,2092-8920
DOI: 10.4132/koreanjpathol.2013.47.1.82