Disc Battery - An Unusual Vaginal Foreign Body in a Child

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Disc Battery - An Unusual Vaginal Foreign Body in a Child

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عنوان ژورنال: APSP Journal of Case Reports

سال: 2016

ISSN: 2218-8185

DOI: 10.21699/ajcr.v7i4.467