Postoperative Assessment with MR imaging in the Skull Base Tumor.
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese jornal of Head and Neck Cancer
سال: 1992
ISSN: 1883-9878,0911-4335
DOI: 10.5981/jjhnc1974.18.2_166