Laryngeal tuberculosis with tongue involvement in a renal transplant recipient
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.9.1958-a