Relapsing polychondritis presenting with inflammatory pseudotumor
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Copyright © 2016 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Relapsing polychondritis presenting with inflammatory pseudotumor
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دوره 31 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016