Serious life threatening upper airway obstruction in congenital generalized myofibromatosis
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عنوان ژورنال: Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1110-8630
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmhg.2012.06.004