Rare huge cold abscess and paraplegia in a young man with multidrug-resistant spinal tuberculosis
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عنوان ژورنال: Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2223-4292,2223-4306
DOI: 10.21037/qims-20-575