Giant Prolactinoma Presenting As a Base of Skull Tumor With Nasopharyngeal Extension: A Potential Diagnostic Pitfall in Neuroendocrine Lesions of the Base of Skull
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عنوان ژورنال: Head and Neck Pathology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1936-055X,1936-0568
DOI: 10.1007/s12105-017-0782-5