Muscular visualisation on a bone scan in paraneoplastic dermatomyositis associated with breast cancer
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Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 23:9 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.23.9.7455 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/23/9/full/ © Abdelhamid Biyi et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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دوره 23 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016