An ultrasonographic evaluation of solitary muscular and soft tissue cysticercosis
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Cysticercosis of soft tissue.
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عنوان ژورنال: Kathmandu University Medical Journal
سال: 1970
ISSN: 1812-2078,1812-2027
DOI: 10.3126/kumj.v8i2.3571