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longstanding hypoparathyroidism in a fifty-two-year-old woman misdiagnosed as spondyloarthropathy
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عنوان ژورنال: International Medical Case Reports Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1179-142X
DOI: 10.2147/imcrj.s212848