Left-sided omental infarction without torsion: report of a case with radiologic-pathologic correlation
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عنوان ژورنال: Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2090-4762
DOI: 10.1186/s43055-020-00235-w