A Primary Giant Hydatid Cyst of the Ovary
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DOI: 10.5812/iranjradiol.7955 Copyright c 2012, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Iranian Society of Radiology. Published by Kowsar Corp. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A r t i C l e i N F o
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