Skull Metastasis From Thyroid Follicular Carcinoma With Difficult Diagnosis of the Primary Lesion-Case Report-
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Solitary skull metastasis from follicular thyroid carcinoma: a case report
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia medico-chirurgica
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0470-8105,1349-8029
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.205