Primary pulmonary extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma: nasal type with multiple nodules.

نویسندگان

  • Kengo Oshima
  • Yoshinori Tanino
  • Suguru Sato
  • Yayoi Inokoshi
  • Junpei Saito
  • Takashi Ishida
  • Takeaki Fukuda
  • Kazuo Watanabe
  • Mitsuru Munakata
چکیده

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The European respiratory journal

دوره 40 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012