Sister Mary Joseph nodule: it does not bode well
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Sister Mary Joseph nodule: it does not bode well
Autopsy and Case Reports. ISSN 2236-1960. Copyright © 2014. This is an Open Access article distributed of terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided article is properly cited. Sister Mary Joseph, the superintendent nurse and surgical assistant of Dr. William Mayo at St Mary’...
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عنوان ژورنال: Autopsy and Case Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2236-1960
DOI: 10.4322/acr.2014.022