Digital Rectal Examination (DRE); A Despised Clinical Sign among Medical Students?
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From the Department of Community Medicine (Al-Rubaii, Al-Ward) and the Department of Dermatology and Venereology (Al-Waiz), College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Bab-Al-Mu’adham, Baghdad, Iraq. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Makram Al-Waiz, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, PO Box 61301, Postal Code 12114, Bab-AlMu’a...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Innovative Research
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2456-8236
DOI: 10.31871/wjir.6.5.38