Adrenal incidentaloma. Part 1. Computed tomography of adrenal incidentaloma: the possibilities and difficulties of differential diagnosis
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عنوان ژورنال: Terapevticheskii arkhiv
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2309-5342,0040-3660
DOI: 10.26442/00403660.2020.12.200451