Intramammary Lymph Node TuberculosisMimicking Cancer
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Copyright: © 2015 Onuigbo W, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: W.I.B. Onuigbo, Department of Histopathology, National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria, Tel: +2348037208680; E-mail: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2016